This would be why I exited MySpace, Friendster, etc. (and never got near Facebook) early on... because I have managed to maintain a tightly-controlled internet identity for professional purposes and social networking sites increasingly made it impossible to *actually* network. I maintain Facebook and MySpace will both cause their own deaths (despite what the kids have to say... and in the interim, I will continue to use neither.
It's amazing how much dancing my IT guys have to do to weed out spam to my inbox via Exchange (to the point now that their latest anti-spamming efforts have diverted everyday emails from MY CONTACTS) into the "spam" folder), but Gmail seems to do it effortlessly and almost flawlessly. Say what you will about Google, but it hires some damn smart engineers.
That "charity" may have netted Radiohead more than $2 million, if numbers from studies such as this hold up: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21656525/. No, it's not a effective model for every band, but it sure puts record companies looking dumb when the band bypasses them and proves they don't need the label or even an outside service like iTunes.
Simmons is a washed-up, bitter old man who is clinging to what little notoriety he has left.
Viacom has every right to protect and enforce its copyright. But I think some of the videos caught by the broadly-cast net are NOT violations at all. Case in point? Mine. Check this out: http://pjperez.livejournal.com/118964.html
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This would be why I exited MySpace, Friendster, etc. (and never got near Facebook) early on ... because I have managed to maintain a tightly-controlled internet identity for professional purposes and social networking sites increasingly made it impossible to *actually* network. I maintain Facebook and MySpace will both cause their own deaths (despite what the kids have to say... and in the interim, I will continue to use neither.
It's amazing how much dancing my IT guys have to do to weed out spam to my inbox via Exchange (to the point now that their latest anti-spamming efforts have diverted everyday emails from MY CONTACTS) into the "spam" folder), but Gmail seems to do it effortlessly and almost flawlessly. Say what you will about Google, but it hires some damn smart engineers.
That "charity" may have netted Radiohead more than $2 million, if numbers from studies such as this hold up: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21656525/. No, it's not a effective model for every band, but it sure puts record companies looking dumb when the band bypasses them and proves they don't need the label or even an outside service like iTunes. Simmons is a washed-up, bitter old man who is clinging to what little notoriety he has left.
Viacom has every right to protect and enforce its copyright. But I think some of the videos caught by the broadly-cast net are NOT violations at all. Case in point? Mine. Check this out: http://pjperez.livejournal.com/118964.html