TechDirt’s Michael Masnick On The State Of The Music Industry

This video captures Michael Masnick’s Learning From What’s Working: Success Stories From The Music Commerce Frontier. Masnick is the founder of TechDirt – a technology blog that has been a vocal critic of the music industry’s approach to technology, especially DRM and its opposition to P2P file sharing. You can safely skip the first 2… Read More TechDirt’s Michael Masnick On The State Of The Music Industry

Trent Reznor Wants To F*** Ticketmaster, Scalpers Like An Animal

Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor has posted his thoughts on the role of scalpers in concert ticket sales, and the complicity of Ticketmaster: TicketMaster has essentially been a monopoly for many years – certainly up until Live Nation’s exclusive deal ran out. They could have (and can right now) stop the secondary market dead in… Read More Trent Reznor Wants To F*** Ticketmaster, Scalpers Like An Animal