The Fight over Net Neutrality will be a Jungleland out there

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski took the opportunity of addressing the Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit to discuss the importance of Network Neutrality. "With a free and open Internet, you don't have to have big-time, star-power leverage over record labels, publishing companies, commercial radio stations, or particular retailers to get your music to the public. In today's broadband world, the artists themselves can be self-empowering -- they are free to connect with audiences, paying customers, and musical social networks in ways previously unimaginable. Most importantly, Net Neutrality permits independent artists and independent labels to compete on an equal technological playing field with the biggest companies in the space. That's the American way -- letting Internet users, the broadest group possible of ordinary people, decide who wins and loses."