Watch this video: Julia_Nunes_CNN_10072011 It doesn’t matter if you know who Julia Nunes is, or whether you like her music, she’s got fans who want to support her, want to hear more, and one can argue quite strongly she’s better off doing it all by her lonesome as opposed to tying up with a big […]

No dancing, no explosions, just music. Music lives on the Internet. This wouldn’t work half as well on the big screen, but sitting in front of the computer you feel like you’re literally on stage, in front of the very first row, Adele looks positively human. The lack of a scorched earth publicity campaign makes […]

Is anybody other than the major labels complaining the Internet has made music worse? That free music has ruined the incentive to create? That if we don’t overpay we’ll get lousier tunes? This fiction has been created by a well-compensated class that doesn’t realize it’s involved in an epic battle between the haves and the […]

To Slow Piracy, Internet Providers Ready Penalties Beware of the copyright bullies. Mickey Mouse was about to go into the public domain. So what did Michael Eisner, head of Disney, do? Pay his lobbyists to get an extension of copyright. Yup, it was just that simple. That’s how America works. Is it good for the […]