Today we’re going to talk about the music industry — specifically Nine Inch Nails ghost release, and how it’s already available on BitTorrent sites, despite the fact that portions of it are freely downloadable. And in a related story, we’ll talk about Kevin Kelly’s theory that if you can get 1,000 “True Fans” as an artist, you can make a living.
And we’ll also discuss a free speech issue — the closure of English travel agent Steve Marshall’s web sites, hosted in the Bahamas, but registered with a US registrar — because they offered europeans trips to Cuba.
And if there’s time… we might sneak in a little political discussion.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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