NAME: JEFF WEISS (@PASSIONWEISS)
LOCATION: LOS ANGELES, CA
TRADE: EDITOR IN CHIEF, PASSION WEISS
“There are only a few things that should be free: love, water, Lil
Boosie. Music should not be free. If people spend years laboring on a
project they deserve some loot. Our time is valuable. So is theirs.
But reality and ethical abstractions rarely align. You can erect DRM
restrictions or sue file sharers, but it won’t stop downloading.
Pandora’s Box was opened so wide that music streaming companies
starting naming themselves after the original Greek with bad judgment.
So where do we go from here. We give some music away free. We charge for
some.We realize that ultimately the Internet is the greatest
transportation device ever assembled. We should probably thank Al
Gore, Shawn Fanning, and the guy who invented Mediafire. There are so
many great sounds that we have heard because the barriers have been
broken. We should be grateful that the old system is dead.”