"We keep hearing “digital music needs to get to scale quickly for the music industry to succeed”; why wait for one player to scale when you could scale an industry of players?"

How About This Instead of SOPA? My Proposal for Legislation to Proactively Combat Piracy While Encouraging an Open and Innovative Internet at FISTFULAYEN

(by @tdavidson)

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I had no idea there were conferences for Accounts Payable Professionals. (by @tdavidson)

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Meeting. on Flickr.

#photo Meeting

"When it comes to shaping the future of the Net, fights about privacy are at least as important as fights about piracy."

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Piracy and privacy

My post on The Next Web today.

Long form thoughts on how crowdfunding (if approved) could impact the venture capital industry.

"The problem for the content industry is they just don’t know how to mobilize people,” said John P. Feehery, a former Republican leadership aide and executive at the motion picture lobby. “They have a small group of content makers, a few unions, whereas the Internet world, the social media world especially, has a tremendous reach. They can reach people in ways we never dreamed of before.” “This has been a real learning experience for the content world,” Mr. Feehery added."

Support for Internet Bill Wanes as Protests Spread - NYTimes.com

If the content industry knew how to make and deliver content in the ways that made sense for today’s culture, technology and values, then mobilizing people wouldn’t be an issue, and they wouldn’t need legislation like SOPA and PIPA. I hope the “learning experience” they take away isn’t about how to mobilize people, but that they need to deliver a better product and experience in the first place.