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...were viewable on YouTube - but not sharable. Lead singer Damian Kulash posted a lengthy letter to fans on the band's website, explaining the difficulty. It's a symptom of a struggling music industry, Kulash wrote: like many record companies, the band's label, Capitol, feels obliged to keep tight rein on its artists' music videos as one of their few remaining revenue streams. His letter soon went viral, as a clearheaded explanation of the problems the music industry faces. Kulash sat down with TIME to talk about OK Go's videos, the backlash and what the band is doing...
...more success than just about anyone with music videos online. What tipped you off that this was the way to go? As a rock band we try to make decisions that keep our career going, but that's a distant second to making things that we care about and that we have fun making. We always made these little things for our friends and our fans, and at the dawn of YouTube, some of them just caught on. And we had no idea of the sorts of numbers that were conceivable...
...information to reach consensus is a precondition to enlightened self-government and a necessary means to protect it," trumpeted Kennedy. Stevens responded, "The court's ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the nation." The rhetoric was so florid, it was hard to keep in mind that they were talking about politics and political advertising...
Some say that Italy's ruling class is just struggling to keep pace with the Internet revolution. "Italy's political culture is far removed from new technology," says Luca Conti, 34, a blogger in the coastal city of Senigallia. "They're not even focused yet on how to control the Internet since they haven't even figured out how to use it to their advantage." Case in point: more than 100,000 people attended an anti-Berlusconi rally in Rome last month that was organized on Facebook, but the top opposition politicians snubbed the event. Conti says the country...
...Fish and water are very auspicious words in Chinese," says Yap, smiling. "Water means wealth and fish means surplus. Keeping fish is a very good omen for those Chinese who want to get wealthy." Yap is bound to keep growing wealthy from his fish too, as long as he swims alone and steers clear of fearsome Chinese predators...