Thanks for the comment. I had seen that Get a Mac ad. They are really funny and a great example of what I'm talking about. I agree that Microsoft needs to find their own voice and capture people the...

Over the last year, Microsoft ads have been simply bad on one end of the spectrum and horrible on the other. It's really time for the company to reconsider their ad agency choices and their overall...

In the final days of a failing model, old media made one last futile attempt to save its fading way of life by trying to expand copyright law to exclude fair use and linking.

Just this morning,...

Video killed the radio star.
Pictures came and broke your heart.
~Buggles, Video Killed the Radio Star

It turns out the old song was wrong. Video didn't kill the radio star and the internet...

Thanks, I enjoyed the debate too. One last thing: If you can, listen to Lawrence Lessig discussing his new book Remix on Fresh Air. He discusses and articulates a lot of things I've been talking...

We're going around in circles here, but just scroll down and check out the web sites I recommended earlier. It applies to musicians and anyone else. Do some research. I believe in these techniques.

I don't think anything I've written suggests I don't support a song writer's right to be paid. On the contrary, I think you should be paid whatever your talent supports, but the RIAA's tactics are...

Musical taste aside, no matter who it is, a classic rock act like Led Zeppelin or today's Top 40 phenom or an unknown kid trying to establish herself, it all comes down to using the internet to your...

Thanks for the great post, Seawrx. You point out a lot of the other issues, beyond the lack of understanding of the internet, that the average consumer has with RIAA techniques. Thanks again for your...

First of all this has nothing to do with P2P. P2P is a delivery mechanism and nothing more. It works well for delivering large files over the internet less expensively than using Content Delivery...

One other quick point, Google has actually only experimented with using ads on YouTube to this point. So while Google has invested more than a billion dollars buying YouTube, they are not making big...

I'll defer to you on copyright law when it comes to who owns what, but when it comes to those videos on YouTube, this is exactly the kind of backward thinking I'm talking about.

Sure, those videos...

Thanks for your comment. It's good to get some push back. To answer your critique: First of all, I don't condone music stealing, but I think there are many better ways to handle this than the RIAA...

The time has come to drag the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) kicking and screaming into the 21st century because it clearly has a lot to learn about marketing on the internet. The...

Guy,
All excellent points. Great post.

Ron

Hendrawan,
Thanks for the comment. I'm waiting for fiber myself. I'm hoping Verizon find its way to my neighborhood soon.

Joytech22,
Thanks for the comment. I'm not sure that's what Matt is suggesting, nor do I expect it's in the best interest of anyone to let traffic slow down significantly. My guess is that there...

There has certainly been a lot FUD being spread around lately by the likes of Comcast (http://www.comcast.com) about how P2P (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer) networks are filling up the...