Fighting Piracy: The New York Times article ‘Verizon Rejects Hollywood’s Call to Aid Piracy Fight‘ shows us how much work needs to be done and how big companies are reluctant to change and effectively position themselves in a new era.

“We generally are reluctant to get into the business of examining content that flows across our networks and taking some action as a result of that content. “We don’t want to solve any network congestion issues by restricting the flow of certain kinds of traffic” says Tom Tauke, Verizon’s executive vice president for public affairs.

The truth is Verizon only wants to fight battles that inherently affect their corporate profits. For instance, Verizon sued and literally bankrupt Vonage over alleged patent infringements. Music piracy does not cut into Verizon’s profits and would actually cost them money to police the flow of traffic.

AT&T understands the new era and is talking about developing a system that would identify and block illicitly copied material being sent over its broadband network.

New York’s New Rock Station: Radio station WQCD (101.9) pulled th plug on Jazz and re-emerged as WRXP, “New York’s Rock Experience.” WRXP describes itself as a mix of classic rock, new music, alternative and local rock.

Ours: KOAR received an interesting press release today regarding the indie band Ours. Ten years after signing with Dreamworks, having never sold many records, perceived as uncompromising and difficult, four record companies later…Why has Rick Rubin made Ours a priority at Columbia records? read the full press release in our comment section.

New Streams: You can now stream the new Simple Plan record here. The self titled record will be released 2/12.
Listen to the tracks The End and Love Is Lie.

Counting Crows has posted a song called “You Can’t Count On Me” that can be streamed here.