Once when discussing music-related Internet companies in 1999, I was told in a very condescending manner by a Silicon Valley corporate partner that such these “were not public companies.” You know what’s the stuff of public companies?  Digital chicken feed. See “Zynga close to IPO filing” and “The Next Bubble“

MTP’s Chris Castle interviews Jason Stall, producer of the documentary Blood Into Wine discusses making of the documentary about Maynard James Keenan’s Arizona vinyard as well as the effects of piracy on film financing and production.  (Maynard is in Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer.) This podcast interview is available on iTunes and Stitcher Radio.

The Sal Giunta Story directed by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington. Staff Sergeant Giunta told 60 Minutes that he was just an average soldier, “So imagine what the great ones are like.” I don’t think we need to imagine anything. Tim Hetherington talks about the day Staff Sergeant Giunta was recommended to receive the CMOH. Tim Heatherington […]

Google’s Eric Schmidt was recently quoted in The Guardian saying that Google would continue serving search results to the Pirate Bay because they made too much money to do otherwise…no wait, what he said was “[Seizing DNS addresses] seems like an appealing solution but it sets a very bad precedent because now another country will say […]

As MTP readers will know, we follow developments in copyright reform in other countries from time to time, but especially in Europe and most particularly in Canada given the proximity to the US border (not to mention that I lived there for a good chunk of time and played for many leading Canadian artists in […]

This is an excerpt from the story of Ryan Haight, as told by his mom: “I found Ryan lifeless in his bed. I tried to resuscitate him, but could not bring him back. Ryan had died. I was in shock. Just the night before, we had dinner together after he came home from work at […]

As readers of MTP will recall, it has become increasingly clear that the only entities big enough to stop Google are countries.  And even those better be big countries. So now the Guardian reports that Google’s erudite boss of bosses, the well-spoken and brilliant Dr. Eric Schmidt (or as he’s known around here “Old Dr. Creepy […]

The New York Times gave a great example of Google’s control over messaging in certain press organs in its coverage about the failed Google Music deals (“Google’s Digital Music Service Falls Short of Ambition“). Here’s a few tips for writing the news about these things–if anyone is interested in the actual news. 1.  The Licensee […]