has a neat group blog that I just discovered. I particularly like a post by Ted Mitchell of Independent Online Distribution Alliance (IODA) on the P2P controversy. Extract:

My knowledge of the industry and the subtleties of the market were not important to this person [from EFF], because for them, it has become a quasi-religion and a mantra: P2P good, content industry bad, technology smart, not-technology dumb. Forget separating the issues into their logical components… it’s all or nothing, baby. You are either 21st Century Digital Boy (shout out to Bad Religion) or you are crusty old-school record exec with crumbling mansion and aging trophy wife. Never mind that most of the people who support the “down with copyright law” position would probably be perpetually out of a job if their wishes came true, since there would be no intellectual property industry to support them and their enlightened views.

Raghav (Rags) Gupta, who wrote the note on record labels as VCs, also cross-posts on DMN.

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