telecom companies

My dream ticket, Obama-Feingold, seems to be slipping away...for shame.

Paul McGuinness, long time manager of U2, spoke at the Music Matters conference in Hong Kong a few days ago and again attacked ISPs and telecom companies for the profiting off the hard work of music companies, musicians and songwriters.

We are, of course, social creatures, and many marketers understand that. Telecom companies have long encouraged us to connect with our friends & family (or Unity), call our network for free, and purchase family plans. Starbucks has built a business around a unique mixture of offline connections accessing online content “together.” Many email newsletters have [...]

Angelia notes that for the first time in 25 years Congress has closed proceedings — to discuss a

Over at Hullabaloo, dday gets to the meat of this FISA madness:

That's all this is about. The telecoms don't want the amnesty. The overriding goal is to shut down these lawsuits and, most important, eliminate the discovery phase so that the full extent of Administration lawbreaking is permanently hidden. This is about burying the evidence, as every single action by the White Hou

Via People for the American Way:

• Forrester's report titled "The End of the Music Industry as We Know It" (nice pun) says digital revenues to surpass those of CDs by 2012. Only "modest growth" is predicted for subscription services. (Press release)

• Forrester's report titled "The End of the Music Industry as We Know It" (nice pun) says digital revenues to surpass those of CDs by 2012. Only "modest growth" is predicted for subscription services. (Press release)

Mr. Beale and I contracted some form of viral plague in New York, so blogging has been light. However, I know the Senate had a big FISA vote yesterday, and it looks like the Senate hung together to fillibuster the thing. Glenn Greenwald has the goods.