Here’s a Cody Chestnutt MP3 I’ve been listening to. If you want to sue me, why not spend the money and tip Cody Chestnutt at right? The future is going to be great for Music. People will be free to create, listen to, and tip for Music. On the Net. We don’t need the Music [...]

I think that all government should be open-source. It should be filmed and public. Congressmen should all have Reality TV Shows. On the Net. People should be able to interact with government. Not just when we vote, but through constant polls, forums, democracy. On the Net. I don’t know why I was thinking of that, [...]

The RIAA is stirring up the MP3 issue, with editorials in the Times and mad coverage in Salon. ThaTha (my dad) was in Atlanta and he gave me a call, and told me to watch my back on the whole Music Piracy thing. Basically, he asked me if I was willing to go to the [...]

Courtney Love’s speech to the Digital Hollywood online entertainment conference, given in New York on May 16, 2000. Archived at Salon and jdray.com. Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist’s work without any intention of paying for it. I’m not talking about [...]

I feel like we’re in the middle of a, well, Revolution. On the Net People are taking power back from Corporations. Linux vs. SCO and p2p vs RIAA are the last ugly gasps of two outdated corporations. Corporate, centralized media is breaking down. Reality TV is putting normal people on TV. Blair Witch was the [...]

The RIAA sued a 12 year old girl in New York Public Housing. Her mother settled and paid the RIAA 2000$. “If this was something we were profiting from, that’s one thing. But we were just listening and sometimes dancing to the music,” said the mother. Media changes, vinyl to tapes to CDs to p2p-networks. [...]

Having a mini debate with Ron about jacking code, started here. The Net is a fundamentally different physical plane and physical property rights do not apply here. When I ‘steal’ code I don’t destroy it for other people, I create more of it. Copying is creative. Christ, it’s the fundamental Creative act, copying code from [...]

been reading this book Nexus, by Mark Buchanan, which ThaTha sent me. He’s talking about the Math of “small-world graphs,” a mathematical theory that can describe Networks. Here’s a copyright violation, I mean Free Speech. Social Networks turn out to be nearly identical in their architecture to the World Wide Web, the network of Web [...]