The RIAA and the MPAA are frantically trying to thwart anything that gets in the way of their stodgy old business model…. heck, it’s a mafia.In between your downloads on bittorrent, Kazaa, and Gnutella, go tell ‘em we’ll break their kneecaps if they try anything like this again…

…if only for a personal victory. The family (and me, of course) just recently relocated to Durham, NH, and tonight I had the pleasure of playing my first “post-move” gig (I’m a drummer, remember?) with a new band up here. Not only did the gig go well musically, but the crowd, the club staff, and [...]

With all the flack we give them, it’s not the RIAA that’s the problem. They’ve mostly lost the battle (enough to where the consumer still has *some* choice, anyway). It’s the MPAA that’s the huge problem. They’ve successfully (and, for the most part, quietly) squashed hundreds (if not thousands) of products that would make our [...]

Yeah, this is another rant about Big Media, but not in the way you’ve seen before (or at least not in the way I have!). You see, they’re spending/wasting all this time and money figuring out ways to ensure that the music/movies/books we download can only be used as many times and as many ways [...]