You’re going to hear a lot about the great work that the #irespecctmusic team is doing this week in Washington, DC to rev up the Congress again in the new session about getting artists paid for radio play. That’s really important, make no mistake, and we’re going to devote some ink to that for sure. […]
When we see Google getting hundreds of millions of takedown notices for links to unlawful material in search alone, not to mention getting called out by the governments of France, the UK and even–to an extent–the US for hosting jihadi recruitment videos on Google’s flagship video platform, you have to ask why don’t they fix […]
In case you haven’t noticed, Billboard and The Official Charts have begun including streaming in measuring chart ranking. Now think about that for a minute–in a world where artists like Taylor Swift are windowing with great success how can you ever think that it’s a good idea to use streaming as a way of measuring […]
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We’ve got data. Lots of data. We have two different consumption surveys of college students and one of the broader population. We’ve also got the details of 2014 digital revenues from a moderately sized independent catalogue. We’re gonna show you our data all this week. This is not pie in…
When the years have done irreparable harm I can see us walking slowly arm in arm Just like that couple on the corner do Girl, I will always be in love with you When I look in your eyes I’ll still see that spark Until the shadows fall Until the room grows dark Then when […]
UPDATE: The video was taken down by Google within 48 hours of posting on MTP. According to Long War Journal, the authoritative resource for terrorist activities worldwide, this video quite clearly calls for violence against the “Je Suis Charlie” protesters in Paris: The media wing of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), al Malahem […]
When moms in Middle America let Little Johnny use YouTube in his room of an evening, do you think it ever occurs to them that Little Johnny is watching radical jihadi recruiting videos? When moms hear about jihadis using “social media” to radicalize new followers, do you think the moms think that means it’s coming […]
As MTP readers will recall, YouTube routinely gives a platform to jihadis and then takes advantage of that traffic by linking those videos to their channel partners. In today’s example, those channel partners include Saturday Night Live, the NBA and the Tonight Show. Here’s the video: According to Long War Journal: [T]he media wing of […]
Right on cue, Jeff John Roberts gave his usual Googley spin to Mississippi’s scrappy Attorney General Jim Hood’s investigation into Google: Google and Mississippi meet in court over secret MPAA lobbying. Roberts story first posted almost on the dot of the commencement of the hearing today in Judge Wingate’s courtroom in Jackson, Mississippi. Like most of Roberts’ […]
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In 2001, a journalist named Bethany McLean posed a simple question in Fortune Magazine: “How exactly does Enron make its money?” Neither company executives nor outside analysts could give her a simple answer. Her one question is now seen as the drip that opened the floodgates that drowned Enron. By…
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