New Show Motto

I'm adapting this from a comment I saw on YouTube...

to all the plastic manufactured "pop stars" of today...

Here's a lesson for you. Go pick up an instrument, turn off the auto tune, learn how to truly perform. Go to a seedy bar, entertain the few that are there, repeat that for a few years. Do it like the talented musicians you will hear on this show. Real musicians, with real instruments and real talent.

This is my new motto for the show.


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Show notes;

Tomorrow night I'll be joined on the show by our good friend Rob Mazurek, Deb from the Unsigned Musicians show, and possibly Kyle Marney for a round table discussion about the music industry as well as the recent goings on with the now tabled so called anti piracy laws as well as recent developments regarding copyright infringement online. You won't want to miss this one!

More RIAA (insert colorful metaphor here)

Reading this article on p2pnet this morning (thank you Ray Beckerman).

The thugs at the RIAA went after a 16 year old cheerleader.

Article here; http://www.p2pnet.net/story/44096

Whitney Harper, left, a 16-year-old cheerleader when she was attacked by the Big 4 organised music cartel’s RIAA, was the first victim in a copyright infringement suit to use the ‘innocent infringer’ defense.

She was accused by Warner Music’s Maverick Records of downloading music through Sharman Network’s Kazaa, the disgraced P2P file sharing app that’s been front and centre in the bulk of RIAA Sue ‘Em All lawsuits.

The RIAA was, and is, fronted by Holme Roberts & Owen’s Eve Burton (right).

Several years ago a federal court in Texas ordered the RIAA to either accept $200 per infringed work, or to go to trial over the innocent infringement issue, said Ray Beckerman in Recording Industry vs The People.

Then last month an amicus brief prepared by a group of professors led by Harvard’s Charles Nesson in support of Harper was submitted to the US Supreme Court, said p2pnet.

Now, says the BLT, the court’s unusual action in asking for Big Music input “is a sign of the Court’s interest in the case”.

A “recent study indicated that the Court’s request for a response significantly increases the chances the Court will ultimately grant review — which could turn into a major contest for the music industry”, says the story.

Definitely stay tuned.

Should be interesting, Ray makes the point at his blog recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com that "The 5th Circuit's ruling was ludicrous, and deserves to be unceremoniously reversed. The Supreme Court's request for a response from the RIAA at this juncture suggests that the high court has picked up on the 5th Circuit's flagrant mistake"

This one is worth watching. I can't help but wonder if the high court is starting to question the constitutionality of the money often awarded in these lawsuits.

Ok, a Real Blog About This Sunday....

This coming Sunday we're going to have TygerWDR from YouTube on the show. He's coming on to talk about some of the issues he's had with YouTube pulling the audio from his videos due to the dispute with Warner Music Group and if last Sunday is any indication, I have a feeling we're gonna talk about everything and anything. He dropped by for an "impromptu" interview last week, and together with Deb from the Unsigned Musicians show we ended up chatting for over 3 hours, which has to be my record for an interview....lol

It must have been interesting, I can't say that I remember that as many folks hung out in chat as long as everyone did last Sunday, real nice crowd especially when you consider that I didn't even know Tyger was gonna drop by.

So when you consider that, and that he's promoted the show on his YouTube page, this week the "real" interview should be a ton of fun and I hope you'll join us. The show starts at 9 p.m. (eastern U.S.)

Let me drop a few links below....

TygerWDR's YouTube page

A link to my show on blogtv

See ya'll soon!

TygerWDR on Indie Spotlight this Sunday

Real blog to follow......

So, lets just let 'em have the money?

I can't believe that one of the things holding back this almost ONE TRILLION DOLLAR bailout were the Republicans wanting to make sure that the executives of these (for all practical purposes) failed companies. Like I discussed on my show earlier this evening, if the rest of us, you and me, MR and MRS John Q. American performed our jobs in a manner that cost the company money, and got fired for it, could we, or would we even, expect a severance package equal to a days salary, much less millions of dollars? I don't think so.

Which begs the question, why should these guys get even a buck, much less a taxpayer dollar, to leave a job that they obviously failed at?

As our government goes even deeper in debt, to bailout extremely poor decision making, as well as greed, and God only knows what else, the last person we should even give a rats ass about, is the person who, by incompetence or greed, contributed to the the largest financial meltdown since the Great Depression.