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The Pirate Bay was Only the Beginning

Pirate Bay

This cartoon pretty much sums up the entertainment industry’s short-lived victory against The Pirate Bay. As technology marches forward to set information free, copyright trolls can win a few battles, but they won’t win the war. Heck, even the music industry plans to throw in the towel by 2011.

(Via Adam Frucci.)

Old Media Whines About Blogs on Google

Old Media ExecWhile offline media filters always favored the rich, Google’s search algorithms don’t care how much money a website publisher makes. Faced with this newly level playing field, old media execs whine that well-linked blogs are killing them in Google SERPs. Now they’re asking Google to artificially raise their search positions, simply because they’re Big Media.

Steve Rubel points out three huge flaws in old media’s arguments: Click here to continue reading “Old Media Whines About Blogs on Google”…