Artists talk net neutrality and P2P

Two opinionated artists have penned columns worth a read in the last few days. OK Go frontman Damian Kulash writes for the Washington Post on net neutrality, and compares it to events in the music industry. “The past decade of the music industry is as clear an example as you can find of what happens when the depth of pockets, not the quality of ideas, is the arbiter of success,” he writes. Meanwhile, Gama Bomb's Philly Byrne has taken issue with U2 manager Paul McGuinness' recent article about file-sharing. Gama Bomb are one of the bands who've given their album away as a torrent. “The only way to fix things is to sweep the decks clean, overturn the idea of file sharing as 'theft' and rethink how to profit from it,” writes Byrne. “There came a day when the log roller guy had to start making wheels, right?”