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Matt Connarton Unleashed 3-28-26 hour 1
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Matt Connorton Unleashed.
Speaker 2: On WMNH ninety five point three.
Speaker 3: Hey, everybody, welcome to Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are
Speaker 3: live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point
Speaker 3: three FM, Inglorious, Manchester, New Hampshire. We got a big
Speaker 3: show for you today. But right now, to kick us off,
Speaker 3: we got a brand new single. This is from our
Speaker 3: friend Opus and you know him as the drummer from
Speaker 3: the band Dead by Wednesday. But he's got a brand
Speaker 3: new solo album coming up called Purging the Demons, his
Speaker 3: first ever solo album, and this is his first ever
Speaker 3: solo single and you're hearing it first right here, brand
Speaker 3: new from Opus. This is called not Okay.
Speaker 1: The silence servis t me.
Speaker 4: I don't know wan have afen.
Speaker 1: When she left?
Speaker 5: Did she do something my mind I can't get out of.
Speaker 1: I know I shouldn't thought that could. But it's not
Speaker 1: the same with about.
Speaker 5: This counts and that days, but it never goes away.
Speaker 1: It ripped my heart out and stole my soul. Y
Speaker 1: you ripped my heart out, cow out.
Speaker 6: Something that till I can't ta point, but it thinks
Speaker 6: me night.
Speaker 1: And I want to be off andy thing.
Speaker 5: I'm stuck in.
Speaker 1: This dark place where I go.
Speaker 6: Up me, but I don't wanna be the person I
Speaker 6: used to be because I wrote too far down, I'm
Speaker 6: going too far down.
Speaker 5: I don't even why to start a care and don't
Speaker 5: really want to. So I've left that knowing now myself
Speaker 5: uns gone.
Speaker 7: Now I try and try, but enough thing to feel
Speaker 7: drive my cowfos shiner and now saying mad, I can't
Speaker 7: even think I'm weak.
Speaker 1: You've ripped my heart out. You stole my soul. Wad,
Speaker 1: You've ripped my heart out, and now all.
Speaker 5: That stole my soul now brand by.
Speaker 8: Muscle No, you're heard it here first.
Speaker 3: That is not okay, the brand new single from Opus,
Speaker 3: the drummer of Dead by Wednesday. But he's got a
Speaker 3: solo project, his new album, Purging the Demons, which will
Speaker 3: be out shortly, and excited to hear that you heard
Speaker 3: it here first, And right now we're gonna play ninth Son.
Speaker 3: This is navarros or Navaris. I'll have to ask him
Speaker 3: because he's going to be joining us UH via Microsoft
Speaker 3: teams right after this to talk with him. But this
Speaker 3: is really good. This is called ninth son.
Speaker 9: You thank you.
Speaker 10: Look like men.
Speaker 2: Kick But what what what?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 11: What?
Speaker 9: What? What?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: What the what?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 3: How cool is that? I didn't even want to talk
Speaker 3: over the end of it. That is so cool. You
Speaker 3: can really groove to that. The track is called Ninth Sun.
Speaker 3: That is Nevaras, and or it might be Navarus. Let's see.
Speaker 3: I think we've got Augustin here with us. Augustin are
Speaker 3: you there?
Speaker 11: Yes, I am, how are you good?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 3: Welcome to the show. I'm excited to talk to you
Speaker 3: because I've been grooving to this. I've been grooving to
Speaker 3: this four track EP sound session. The whole thing is
Speaker 3: so good.
Speaker 11: Thank you, man.
Speaker 12: I really appreciate that absolutely.
Speaker 3: So let's clear this up right off the bat. You
Speaker 3: how do you say the name?
Speaker 11: It's Nevarus.
Speaker 13: You know, it's adaptation of my last name on my
Speaker 13: mother's side, which is Nevadas, which is like a proper
Speaker 13: Spanish name.
Speaker 8: But gotcha.
Speaker 13: I saw it misspelled on a piece of paper once
Speaker 13: and I needed to It's like my stage name was
Speaker 13: like Navarus.
Speaker 11: I just took it. I've had it ever since.
Speaker 3: Oh that's cool, that's cool, No, I dig it. I'm
Speaker 3: really curious about your recording process with this. So for
Speaker 3: people who are not familiar with you and how you
Speaker 3: recorded this EP, I don't know if this is how
Speaker 3: you record everything but your I mean, it's live. It's
Speaker 3: it's studio, it's it's it's like it's it's in studio,
Speaker 3: but it's also live in the sense that And I
Speaker 3: don't know how many people do this anymore, but you're
Speaker 3: all playing live at the same time. So there's no overdubs,
Speaker 3: there's no you know, it's not you know, one person's
Speaker 3: recording you know, guitar parts and then somebody else is
Speaker 3: doing the synth and all this. It's all live. I
Speaker 3: did watch the videos too, and I'm just I'm fascinated
Speaker 3: by that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, it was all live. No you know, no
Speaker 13: click track, no headphones interestingly really play.
Speaker 11: Yeah, no headphones.
Speaker 13: So we had bleed, which kind of you're kind of
Speaker 13: married to keeping it live at that point because you
Speaker 13: can't you can't edit it. It's it's so no headphones
Speaker 13: through amps. We could all hear each other live in
Speaker 13: the space. And you know, that's hard work for James
Speaker 13: de la Tacoma, who is the engineer, and Michael Black
Speaker 13: was filming it. It was something that none of us
Speaker 13: had try nine people, and it was definitely a sort
Speaker 13: of an experiment. And once we did it and I
Speaker 13: took it back, I listened to it, I was like, man,
Speaker 13: this sounds unlike any of the stuff I've done for
Speaker 13: years where you overdub and you lose something.
Speaker 3: For sure, that's incredible. So you've never done anything quite
Speaker 3: like this In terms of recording, I never have.
Speaker 13: No, I've recorded, I've got four records, and then working
Speaker 13: on the fifth, and then after that I already started
Speaker 13: on the sixth.
Speaker 11: All of them were done with some form of live,
Speaker 11: you know. I never did it like layer by layer.
Speaker 13: Often it would be like the drum set the base,
Speaker 13: you know, just like the core group, and then on
Speaker 13: top of that you're just adding and adding and adding building, right,
Speaker 13: That's how I've always done it.
Speaker 3: Do you think that it's better to well, I mean
Speaker 3: I assume you think it's better because this is your approach,
Speaker 3: But do you prefer to get it as live as possible?
Speaker 3: Or again, in this case, in terms of the EP,
Speaker 3: this is all done live, like truly live. But do
Speaker 3: you think it's good to get either do that or
Speaker 3: get as close to that as possible, because then you
Speaker 3: capture something that maybe you don't capture if you're doing
Speaker 3: it the way most bands do it now, where you
Speaker 3: are just doing one thing at a time and sort
Speaker 3: of building the track because and part of why I'm
Speaker 3: curious about this is I know bands that you know,
Speaker 3: they they're really good live, but then you listen to
Speaker 3: their studio work and maybe it's not quite capturing the
Speaker 3: magic or the energy of the band's live performance, and
Speaker 3: you go, I wish, I wish these studio records really
Speaker 3: kind of captured that. I mean, how do you feel
Speaker 3: about that? And do you think you lose something if
Speaker 3: you do it, you know, just one thing at a time.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean I've always tried, and you know, I've
Speaker 13: done a record since doing sound Session that is very
Speaker 13: close to being finished. And we did it shortly after
Speaker 13: sound session. We didn't fully go back to everybody live
Speaker 13: in the studio, but four of us got together, so
Speaker 13: Locatronto and drums, Jonathan Maren, oh, Bill Bernard and I
Speaker 13: got together and put down the whole basis of it.
Speaker 13: And in general, I do at least rhythm section plus
Speaker 13: and alotic instruments, you know, a core live in the studio.
Speaker 13: I never do. If you go back too far, you're
Speaker 13: going to lose all the spirit of it, you know,
Speaker 13: right right?
Speaker 3: And can you tell us too about working with Bill
Speaker 3: Bill Laswell, legendary producer and bassist on this and these songs.
Speaker 3: I mean he actually co wrote these with you, correct.
Speaker 11: He did.
Speaker 13: We So originally we did an album called Reverberations, which
Speaker 13: is out there for people to check out if you want,
Speaker 13: and that we did where he wrote all these amazing basslines,
Speaker 13: and then we had a lot of stuff that didn't
Speaker 13: make it on the record, and we had done two
Speaker 13: records before that, so I've done three records with Bill
Speaker 13: playing bass wow, And there was just a lot of material.
Speaker 13: And so my idea was originally to get in the
Speaker 13: studio with Bill and everybody and film it and document it.
Speaker 13: And then Bill health has you know, he's been dealing
Speaker 13: with a lot of challenges. He hasn't really been back
Speaker 13: to the studio, and Peter Applebaum, the sax player, suggested
Speaker 13: Jonathan Marron come in and he basically learned a lot
Speaker 13: of Bill's basslines no for note wow, but then he
Speaker 13: improvised on top of that.
Speaker 11: So I say, like the first part of every.
Speaker 13: One of these songs is a straight Bill Laswell bassline,
Speaker 13: and then he took it where.
Speaker 11: It needs to go.
Speaker 13: So there was a lot of Jonathan involved as well.
Speaker 3: In terms of him coming in and doing that. Did
Speaker 3: you sort of guide him and say, you know, at
Speaker 3: least for the start of it, try to do what
Speaker 3: Bill was doing? Or I mean, how much latitude did
Speaker 3: you give him? I guess is what I'm really asking.
Speaker 3: Or did you tell him, you know, go crazy, do
Speaker 3: what you want and we'll see what happens, or how
Speaker 3: did you approach that?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I sent him a bunch of recorded music, and
Speaker 13: you know, Jonathan Maren is just one of the best
Speaker 13: bass players I've ever worked with. It's a super talented guy,
Speaker 13: and he learned everything, and he came with, you know,
Speaker 13: like an ipatty and everything kind of ready to go
Speaker 13: exactly like on the recording, and it's like, don't don't
Speaker 13: worry about that. None of us are going to play
Speaker 13: the track accurately. We're going to start. All of this
Speaker 13: will be out the window within two minutes. But like
Speaker 13: you know, for nights on that baseline in the beginning,
Speaker 13: that's that's Bill's baseline, you know, Okay, pretty much.
Speaker 11: That's that's his baseline.
Speaker 13: And Bill has a vocabulary baselines, and you know, he
Speaker 13: has just all this work that he's created.
Speaker 11: He's it's so.
Speaker 13: It's very distinctly his composition. But then you know, Jonathan
Speaker 13: certainly and the rest of the band certainly took it
Speaker 13: wherever it needed to go in the moment, and everything
Speaker 13: else I'd say was fully one hundred percent in provods
Speaker 13: except for the baseline.
Speaker 3: Really, no kidding, Wow, that's incredible. Tell us who about
Speaker 3: working with DJ Logic on turntables.
Speaker 11: He's the best.
Speaker 12: Yeah, he's the best.
Speaker 11: He's the best.
Speaker 13: I met him through the great Bernie Warrel many years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 13: I had the honor of working with Bernie of times,
Speaker 13: which will always be the highlight from my musical experience.
Speaker 11: May he rest in peace.
Speaker 13: And we did a show and he just brought J
Speaker 13: Logic alone to hang out and just and Logic gave
Speaker 13: me his number on a napkin with the marker. He's like,
Speaker 13: this is dope, man, here's And then after that, for
Speaker 13: a long time we tried to figure out how to
Speaker 13: get together. And then once we were in the studio,
Speaker 13: the first time we've been in the studio fair amount
Speaker 13: and man, I love that awesome human beings, just great
Speaker 13: person and phenomenal talent obviously.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, clearly and everything. I mean, you know, you
Speaker 3: sit right in with what you were doing, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. So now what's what is the live situation
Speaker 3: with this project? Are you playing these songs out live?
Speaker 3: Or will you be? And I'm curious about that.
Speaker 11: I've been doing. I have been doing some shows.
Speaker 13: I think I have you know, four or five shows
Speaker 13: coming up this summer. I'm playing different tracks from sort
Speaker 13: of the full catalog of everything ever put out. And
Speaker 13: you know there's a sort of iteration of the band
Speaker 13: that's that's been out there working a little bit, and
Speaker 13: we do.
Speaker 11: Have quite a lot coming up. Yeah, yeah, we're doing it.
Speaker 3: Oh outstanding, outstanding. And you're also the co founder of
Speaker 3: Knowledge Records. Is that correct?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 11: My brother and I started Knowledge Records a long time ago.
Speaker 13: It it you know, it doesn't do much except just uh,
Speaker 13: put out stuff that I work on. OK, someday there's
Speaker 13: I'd love to do more. I'd love to figure out
Speaker 13: how to you know, there's so many talented artists around
Speaker 13: people that I know that I you know, it's I'd
Speaker 13: love to find some you know, wealthy billionaire that's like there,
Speaker 13: just take all this money and make as many records
Speaker 13: as you want.
Speaker 3: No doubt. And you're a You're in an epicenter of music, right,
Speaker 3: I mean you're in New York, is that correct?
Speaker 13: You know, I'm based out of New York. My wife
Speaker 13: is working for Penn State University. You know, I'm born
Speaker 13: and raised in New York, so I'm sort of doing
Speaker 13: a lot of back and forth on Route eighty right now, nodding, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 13: you know, all the musicians are based out of New York,
Speaker 13: and you know, my family, we still have our apartment
Speaker 13: in New York where I grew up. But yeah, I've
Speaker 13: been spending more time outside of the city, and I
Speaker 13: found that people are really uh, there's a really great
Speaker 13: listener base when you get out of the city, and
Speaker 13: I'm trying to work with that more. You know, take
Speaker 13: the music where people are hungry to hear.
Speaker 3: It, right right, which is everywhere.
Speaker 11: So that's everywhere.
Speaker 3: So that's good, you know. And of course, obviously, you know,
Speaker 3: we live in a time because of the Internet where
Speaker 3: you can you know, you can reach people anywhere, which
Speaker 3: is wonderful. Yeah, and tell us about loud. You also
Speaker 3: have a project called loud Apartment.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 13: That was the first kind of project name that I
Speaker 13: had because I never wanted it to be my own name.
Speaker 13: It's kind of Bill's fault that it ended up being
Speaker 13: my name again, And he was when he did reverberations.
Speaker 13: He was like, no, that's a cool name. You know,
Speaker 13: it's it's like Santana. It's a good reference point. Now
Speaker 13: you should use that, And I don't know. I kind
Speaker 13: of was like, okay, but I liked I used a
Speaker 13: loud Apartment for a while, put out three records and
Speaker 13: did a bunch of playing us loud Apartment. But really
Speaker 13: it's the same, just project name for whatever I'm working on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a cool name.
Speaker 8: I like it.
Speaker 3: Loud Apartment. That's a cool name. So so Bill's a
Speaker 3: one convince you to use Navarus. I mean, he's not wrong.
Speaker 3: I mean it is a cool name. It is avocative
Speaker 3: of Santana. I like it.
Speaker 13: Yeah, he's very involved in all aspects of a project,
Speaker 13: from the art to the song order.
Speaker 11: It's really cool.
Speaker 13: Like it was an absolute honor to work with Bill
Speaker 13: over the years, and that's one of the things I
Speaker 13: loved about working with him.
Speaker 11: Is it was never just one part of it.
Speaker 13: He kind of understands how to make a record from
Speaker 13: start to finish and all the different parts involved.
Speaker 3: How did that You might have touched on it. Forgive
Speaker 3: me if I'm forgetting, but how did how did that
Speaker 3: come about? Where you first began working with Bill Laslow
Speaker 3: Bill Laswell.
Speaker 13: Through a singer named Garrison Hawk ak Hawkman reggae singer,
Speaker 13: great singer, most known for Blowback with Tricky, all the
Speaker 13: reggae stuff on that. But he's he's been out there
Speaker 13: for a long time and he's one of my best friends.
Speaker 13: And he was working with Bill and I got hired
Speaker 13: to produce the track for one of his records and
Speaker 13: Bill mixed it and when I got the mill, when
Speaker 13: I got the mixed back, I was like, oh man,
Speaker 13: this is this is who I need to work with
Speaker 13: and was very persistent in trying to figure out how
Speaker 13: to make that happen more consistently.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, and apparently you succeeded. So that's that's wonderful, outstanding.
Speaker 3: So what's what's next for this project? Do you intend
Speaker 3: to you know, obviously, I mean the sound sessions ep
Speaker 3: is great, do you uh is there going to be
Speaker 3: a follow up to this with the same sort of
Speaker 3: configuration and approach to doing it?
Speaker 11: I think so.
Speaker 13: I think I would like to do it again, maybe
Speaker 13: the exact same configurations. It's fun sometimes to repeat things,
Speaker 13: you know, identically, same room, be like, hey, let's let's
Speaker 13: try this one more time, maybe play a little longer,
Speaker 13: put something together. In the meantime, I have a record
Speaker 13: coming out called mind Funk, which has a.
Speaker 11: Lot of the same guys. That's almost done.
Speaker 13: And uh, yeah, there's some very exciting surprise guests on
Speaker 13: that then talking about Yeah, one of them is Booty Collins.
Speaker 11: I'll tell you that.
Speaker 8: Really that's awesome playing.
Speaker 13: Yeah, he's playing based on two of the tracks. I
Speaker 13: haven't really announced that yet, but yeah, he's he's going
Speaker 13: to be on it. So I am very excited to
Speaker 13: put this out and just I'm just trying to keep moving, man, Yeah,
Speaker 13: keep it moving.
Speaker 3: That's what you gotta do. That's what you gotta do.
Speaker 3: Booty Collins, boy, talk about a legend. That's amazing.
Speaker 13: I know it was a shock when the track came back,
Speaker 13: and that is fully Bill Aswell's work. You know, Bill
Speaker 13: is Uh, it's it's really been awesome to know him
Speaker 13: and you know you in terms of his health struggles,
Speaker 13: it's it's something you can do. I don't like to
Speaker 13: be the one to talk about it, but you can
Speaker 13: read about it. There's go fund these and all you know,
Speaker 13: ways to support him. And you know, he's he's he's still,
Speaker 13: he's still you know, finding out how to keep creatively
Speaker 13: working and you know, keeping things happening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, one hundred. Well, very good. Well listen, Augustin.
Speaker 3: We'll let you go in a moment, but let me
Speaker 3: ask you, well two things. First, let me ask you
Speaker 3: where is the best place to go online for people
Speaker 3: to keep up with everything that you are doing, everything
Speaker 3: with navars and anything else that you want people to
Speaker 3: know about. Where should people go online to keep up
Speaker 3: with you?
Speaker 13: Navars dot net and E V A R I S
Speaker 13: dot net that is where everything is. There's definitely music
Speaker 13: that is not on Spotify, not streaming, that is there.
Speaker 11: Oh, I have four records on there.
Speaker 13: Uh, and I'm going to be posting all the shows
Speaker 13: coming up there and yeah that's the spot Oh fantastic.
Speaker 3: Well that's easy. And the other question is what should
Speaker 3: we play at the end of our conversation. We played
Speaker 3: ninth Son to open. But I'm thinking, so we've got
Speaker 3: there's document and there's Remedy, doub Orchestra. Might be a
Speaker 3: little longest, might be might be a little long for
Speaker 3: for the radio.
Speaker 11: But but but I'll let you go for document, document.
Speaker 3: Okay, what anything special we should know about this track.
Speaker 8: Before we play?
Speaker 11: I think that that one was the chance to.
Speaker 13: You know, play some more traditional Afro Cuban rhythms with
Speaker 13: Angel Rodriguez, the Great Angel Rodriguez on congas.
Speaker 11: So that was cool. And that's Jojo Cool also.
Speaker 13: Playing percussion, who played in Felous Band after Tony Allen.
Speaker 11: So you know, there's some awesome people involved.
Speaker 13: And uh, there is a go fundme for Jojo because
Speaker 13: he just had an operation on his heart, so I
Speaker 13: shout that out. Cool, you look him up, he's playing
Speaker 13: on it. And really just a great group of people.
Speaker 13: It was a joy to work on it. No no arguing,
Speaker 13: no stress, just playing music.
Speaker 3: It's fantastic and you know, the success of it is
Speaker 3: evident and the end result. So definitely definitely a good
Speaker 3: group of people you put together for this. Absolutely no, no,
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. The EP is incredible.
Speaker 3: All right, Augustin will let you go. We're gonna hit
Speaker 3: that track, but I'm sure we will talk again as
Speaker 3: you're releasing new music. Sounds like you got a lot
Speaker 3: coming up, so we'll definitely have you back.
Speaker 11: Awesome. I appreciate it. Have a beautiful day, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Augustin Navaris. Thank you. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 11: Bye bye.
Speaker 3: All right. That is Augustin Navarus of the Project Navarus.
Speaker 3: Of course, check out Sound Session. It's a fantastic for
Speaker 3: a track EP. We're gonna play another song from this
Speaker 3: right now. And this is called Document.
Speaker 10: And kept.
Speaker 4: Think and and and and.
Speaker 10: And game fast three game name.
Speaker 13: In m.
Speaker 3: That is so cool. That is called the Document. That is Navars.
Speaker 3: And thank you again to Augustin Navarus for joining us earlier.
Speaker 3: By the way, the EP is called sound Session. Four tracks,
Speaker 3: really really good and I really enjoyed our conversation with him.
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Speaker 3: show archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is Saturday, March
Speaker 3: twenty eight, twenty twenty six. Got a little bit of
Speaker 3: music news, and I will be very curious to see
Speaker 3: how people react to this on social media or if
Speaker 3: you are listening live. Of course, you can always chime
Speaker 3: in in the chat room as well. Because I say
Speaker 3: that because I have what maybe among people who are
Speaker 3: active in the music industry as I am and a
Speaker 3: lot of our audiences people in the music and I
Speaker 3: have what maybe an unpopular opinion about this. I'm not
Speaker 3: sure though. So this is something that the Supreme Court
Speaker 3: has ruled on regarding piracy and copyright and record labels
Speaker 3: and all of it. And this isn't important. This this
Speaker 3: could be you know, we use the term landmark ruling.
Speaker 3: So this is important and it does involve the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3: You know, we don't do politics on this iteration of
Speaker 3: the show. But this isn't political. This is but it does.
Speaker 3: It is something that affects the music industry, and I
Speaker 3: have my opinion about this might be a little bit unpopular.
Speaker 3: We'll see, we'll get into it, but I actually agree
Speaker 3: with the Supreme Court's ruling on this in a time
Speaker 3: where you know, I may not agree with a lot
Speaker 3: of Supreme Court rulings, but I do agree on this.
Speaker 3: But I'll be very curious to get audience feedback, either
Speaker 3: live and or afterward on social media. But this is
Speaker 3: from one of my favorite websites for music industry news,
Speaker 3: music businessworldwide dot com. US Supreme Court. This has happened
Speaker 3: this week. US Supreme Court sides with Cox Communications in
Speaker 3: landmark music piracy case brought by record labels. Okay, so
Speaker 3: here's the article. This we'll explain. The US Supreme Court
Speaker 3: has ruled that internet service provider Coxcommunications cannot be held
Speaker 3: responsible for music piracy committed by its subscribers, ending a
Speaker 3: landmark copyright case in which the major record companies had
Speaker 3: won a one billion dollar jury verdict. This this was unanimous.
Speaker 3: By the way, the unanimous decision by the Supreme Court
Speaker 3: was handed down on March twenty five, so this was
Speaker 3: just a few days ago. Justice Clarence Thomas writing for
Speaker 3: the Court. Again, if you know me, we don't get
Speaker 3: into politics on this iteration of the show but not anymore.
Speaker 3: We used to a long time ago. But if you
Speaker 3: know me, you know again, Justice Thomas not someone I
Speaker 3: would necessarily agree with much, if ever, but he's got
Speaker 3: it right here. In my opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas, writing
Speaker 3: for the court, said that Cox quote neither induced its
Speaker 3: users infringement nor provided a service tailored to infringement. So,
Speaker 3: in other words, saying that an Internet service provider, just
Speaker 3: because they are providing you Internet service does not mean
Speaker 3: that that somehow is inducing you to do something illegal
Speaker 3: like piracy, like infringing on somebody's copyright. They're just providing
Speaker 3: you the service.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 3: He's right, uh, he also said. He also wrote in
Speaker 3: his opinion quote, Cox provided Internet service to its subscribers,
Speaker 3: but it did not intend for that service to be
Speaker 3: used to commit copyright infringement. Holding Cox liable merely for
Speaker 3: failing to terminate Internet service to en fringing accounts would
Speaker 3: expand secondary copyright liability beyond our precedence. Unquote. Again, if
Speaker 3: you know me, you won't hear me say this often,
Speaker 3: if ever. But in this case, Justice Clarence Thomas got
Speaker 3: this right. He's right. I agree absolutely. Now. The reason
Speaker 3: I say this may be an unpopular opinion within some
Speaker 3: of with some of our audience and people in the
Speaker 3: music industry who listen to the show. Is there are
Speaker 3: some in the music industry who are who are upset
Speaker 3: about this, who say, no, piracy is uh has always
Speaker 3: been a problem, and we need to do whatever we
Speaker 3: can to tamp down piracy and copyright infringement. And look,
Speaker 3: I am someone who again, if you know me, if
Speaker 3: you know my background, if you're a regular listener to
Speaker 3: the show, you know that ultimately, I will always advocate
Speaker 3: on behalf of artists and the music industry that you know,
Speaker 3: the people, not necessarily the major labels who but well,
Speaker 3: we won't get into that, and certainly not I won't
Speaker 3: advocate on behalf of Live Nation and Ticketmaster, but we
Speaker 3: won't get in all of that. But I'm saying artists
Speaker 3: making money, making a living, which is much harder than
Speaker 3: people might realize, Artists making a living within the music
Speaker 3: industry and being paid for their work. I will always
Speaker 3: advocate on behalf of that, always, always, always, That's what
Speaker 3: I care about most is artists getting getting paid, being
Speaker 3: compensated for their work, and being able to make a living.
Speaker 3: It's it's crucial it's critical, and we talk about that
Speaker 3: a lot on the show, especially with AI and and
Speaker 3: the advent of all this AI generated music and the
Speaker 3: threats that that that that holds, and and you know,
Speaker 3: we talk about this stuff all the time on the program.
Speaker 3: But I do think it's a little bit absurd this
Speaker 3: idea that you're going to hold Internet service providers responsible
Speaker 3: and make them have to pay for what individual users
Speaker 3: are doing. That would be like, uh, you knowing auto
Speaker 3: manufacturers every time someone gets into a car accident where
Speaker 3: somebody ends up dead, you know, is it the is
Speaker 3: it the the fault of the auto manufacturers for producing
Speaker 3: a product that someone uses to accidentally kill someone on
Speaker 3: the highway. You know, let's see some common sense. Let's
Speaker 3: be reasonable and rational about this. And again some people
Speaker 3: will say, Matt, we have to do whatever we can,
Speaker 3: literally whatever we can to stop piracy, to stop people
Speaker 3: from having their copyrights infringed upon. I understand that, but
Speaker 3: but we also again we have to be reasonable and
Speaker 3: use common sense, and so to hold Internet service providers
Speaker 3: responsible for what individual users are doing, whether it's piracy,
Speaker 3: whether it's using the dark web to do other things
Speaker 3: that are illegal, accessing the dark web, whatever, it is right,
Speaker 3: you know, unless the internet service provider is somehow and again,
Speaker 3: as Justice Thomas said, there's no inducing of individual users
Speaker 3: to commit fraud or to do any kind of illegal activity,
Speaker 3: you know, unless you have an internet service provider who
Speaker 3: is marketing their service in a way that they're actually
Speaker 3: saying somewhere in their marketing by the way, you know,
Speaker 3: you can do whatever you want. You can do illegal
Speaker 3: things if you use our internet service, and we won't
Speaker 3: even uh nobody will even get mad at you about it,
Speaker 3: you know. But obviously that's not happening. Okay, So more
Speaker 3: to this article. Again, this is from Music Businessworldwide dot com.
Speaker 3: Commenting on the decision, Mitch Glazier our IAA chairman and
Speaker 3: CEO CEO said, and okay, so here's the dissenting opinion,
Speaker 3: dissenting against me. I feel like I'm the dissenting opinion
Speaker 3: because again I feel like I have an unpopular opinion
Speaker 3: about this within the music industry. Here's here's what Mitch
Speaker 3: Glazier said. Again, he's the RIAA chairman and CEO. He said, quote,
Speaker 3: we are disappointed in the courts decision vacating a jury's
Speaker 3: determination that Cox Communications contributed to mass scale copyright infringement
Speaker 3: based on overwhelming evidence that the company knowingly facilitated theft,
Speaker 3: knowingly facilitated theft. Come on, so, by that logic, you know,
Speaker 3: take the music industry, take the piracy part out of it.
Speaker 3: Let's just you know, back up and take a broader
Speaker 3: view of this and what he's saying. By that logic,
Speaker 3: anything that anyone ever does that might be illegal, It
Speaker 3: might be fraudulent, that might be deceptive. On the Internet,
Speaker 3: if they're using Coxcommunications for their Internet service, anything anybody
Speaker 3: ever does online while using that service, well it's it
Speaker 3: was facilitated by by the internet service provider. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's absurd, that's crazy. That's that's that's truly, that's that's
Speaker 3: an insane standard. How could any business live up to
Speaker 3: that and and and be held responsible for that. That's
Speaker 3: nuts to me. Um he said more Mitch Glazier said
Speaker 3: more quote. To be effective, copyright law must protect creators
Speaker 3: and markets from harmful infringement, and policymakers should look closely
Speaker 3: at the impact of this ruling. The Court's decision is narrow,
Speaker 3: applying only to contributory infringement cases involving defendants like Cocks
Speaker 3: that do not themselves, copy, hosts, distributor publish infringing material,
Speaker 3: or control or induce such activity unquote. The ruling means
Speaker 3: that simply knowing some subscribers are pirating music and continuing
Speaker 3: to provide them with Internet access is not enough to
Speaker 3: make an ISP liable for copyright infringement. Right because again
Speaker 3: the ISP, Yeah, they know that some people are pirating music.
Speaker 3: Of course they do, because we all know that. But
Speaker 3: is there I guess maybe there's an implicit expectation that
Speaker 3: the ISP is supposed to detect who aspirraty music and
Speaker 3: then turn off their service. Is that Is that what
Speaker 3: we're expecting?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 3: What could possibly go wrong there? I mean, come on,
Speaker 3: this is this is crazy. So again I agree with
Speaker 3: the court's decision. There's more to this. Under the standard
Speaker 3: set of today's set. By today's decision, rights holders must
Speaker 3: provide either must prove either that a provider actively encouraged
Speaker 3: infringement or that its service was designed for piracy with
Speaker 3: no real lawful use. Internet access, the court said, clearly
Speaker 3: has many lawful purposes. The case dates back to twenty eighteen,
Speaker 3: when Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and
Speaker 3: dozens of other rights holders sued Cox, arguing the company
Speaker 3: ignored over one hundred and sixty three thousand infringement notices
Speaker 3: about subscribers illegally downloading more than ten thousand copyrighted songs.
Speaker 3: The labels pointed to evidence that a Cox manager overseeing
Speaker 3: piracy compliance told his team to quote f the DMCA
Speaker 3: unquote and the DMCA is a law that is designed
Speaker 3: to I wish I could remember exactly what it stands
Speaker 3: for digital media copyright? Is that the Digital Media Copyright
Speaker 3: Act Again, it's an anti piracy law. A jury sided
Speaker 3: with the labels in twenty nineteen, awarding one billion dollars.
Speaker 3: The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals partially overturned the verdict
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four, throwing out the vicarious liability finding
Speaker 3: but keeping the contributory infringement ruling and ordering a retrial
Speaker 3: on damages that could have reached one point five billion.
Speaker 3: The Supreme Court took up the case last June, heard
Speaker 3: oral arguments in December, and has now reversed the remaining
Speaker 3: contributory liability, including finding entirely the Thomas opinion laid out
Speaker 3: two and only two paths to contributory copyright liability. The
Speaker 3: first is inducement, where a provider actively promotes its service
Speaker 3: as a tool for piracy, as in a landmark two
Speaker 3: thousand and five MGM versus Groster ruling involving file sharing software.
Speaker 3: By the way, remember if you're old enough to remember
Speaker 3: two thousand and five, early to mid two thousands, that's
Speaker 3: the era of napster. That's the era of mass panic
Speaker 3: and I do mean panic within the music industry about
Speaker 3: file sharing. That was when in two thousand and five,
Speaker 3: I was still working for trans World Entertainment, which owned
Speaker 3: Strawberries and Fye and all of that at the time,
Speaker 3: and there was panic because it was I remember having
Speaker 3: conversations with people where I just, you know, kind of
Speaker 3: shrugging and said, well, music is free. Now that's it.
Speaker 3: You can't stop it, you can't help it. Music is
Speaker 3: now free. What are you gonna do? But anyway, so
Speaker 3: that's why I say, you know, two thousand and five,
Speaker 3: remember what was happening into Again, if you're old enough,
Speaker 3: remember what was happening in two thousand and five within
Speaker 3: the music industry at that time. Okay, So the second
Speaker 3: path is where a service is specifically tailored to infringement
Speaker 3: and has no real commercial use beyond piracy. So now,
Speaker 3: so when you're talking about that, I mean, I don't
Speaker 3: know of an Internet service provider anywhere that actively promotes
Speaker 3: itself as a service designed specifically for piracy. Now, there's
Speaker 3: lots and lots of websites. I won't get into how
Speaker 3: I know that you can do that. You can you
Speaker 3: can download things that you otherwise might be required to
Speaker 3: pay for. But I don't know of an Internet service
Speaker 3: provider that actively markets themselves as Hey, if you need
Speaker 3: to pirate something, where where the place to go for it?
Speaker 3: I don't know that. Okay, So Cox, the court found
Speaker 3: met neither test. The company had contractually prohibited subscribers from
Speaker 3: using its service to infringe copyrights, sent warnings, suspended services,
Speaker 3: and terminated accounts. The opinion stated, quote, this Court has
Speaker 3: repeatedly made clear that mere knowledge that a service will
Speaker 3: be used to infringe is insufficient to establish the required
Speaker 3: intent to infringe. Elsewhere in the opinion, Thomas wrote, quote
Speaker 3: based on this theory of infringement respondence, Sony Music Entertainment,
Speaker 3: and other major copyright owners secured a billion dollar verdict
Speaker 3: against Cox. The United States Court of Appeals of the
Speaker 3: Fourth Circuit agreed that because Cox provided Internet service to
Speaker 3: known infringers, it was a willful infringer itself. Under our precedence,
Speaker 3: a company is not liable as a copyright infringer for
Speaker 3: merely providing a service to the general public with knowledge
Speaker 3: that it will be used by some to infringe copyrights. Accordingly,
Speaker 3: we reverse unquote yeah, because even if you know and look,
Speaker 3: even if you know that there are specific people, maybe
Speaker 3: customers you've had in the past who have bought your
Speaker 3: internet service, you know that these people have been flagged
Speaker 3: previously for copyright infringement, for piracy somehow they've been flagged.
Speaker 3: What are you gonna do? So you're never going to
Speaker 3: give them service again? Do they just depending on where
Speaker 3: they live. I mean, look, depending on where you are geographically,
Speaker 3: you might have very limited options for home internet service.
Speaker 3: So does someone who may have got caught or have
Speaker 3: been at least noticed by an internet service provider at
Speaker 3: some point in the past, you know, downloaded something that
Speaker 3: maybe they didn't pay for, maybe they pirated something. So
Speaker 3: now they just don't get to have internet ever again.
Speaker 3: I mean, what are you supposed to do again? From
Speaker 3: just let's be practical about it, think about it practically
Speaker 3: what do you want these Internet service providers to do?
Speaker 3: There's no practical way for them to do what you
Speaker 3: want them to do. If what you want them to
Speaker 3: do is make sure that nobody ever pirates anything, it's
Speaker 3: it's it's an unfair, untenable burden to be placing on
Speaker 3: these Internet service providers. So the ruling also found that
Speaker 3: the Fourth Circuit had gone wrong by creating a broader
Speaker 3: form of liability, holding that quote supplying a product with
Speaker 3: knowledge that the recipient will use it to infringe copyrights
Speaker 3: was enough. The Supreme Court said this conflicted with decades
Speaker 3: of its own case law. Justice Sonia Soda Mayor, joined
Speaker 3: by Justice Kaitanji Brown Jackson, agreed Cox should not be
Speaker 3: liable in this case, but warned that the majority's ruling
Speaker 3: goes too far. Soda Mayor argued that it strips ISPs
Speaker 3: of any real reason to deal with piracy on their networks,
Speaker 3: making the DMCA's Safe Harbor rules pointless. Those rules require
Speaker 3: ISPs to cut off repeat infringers in exchange for legal protection.
Speaker 3: She wrote that the majority's decision completely upends the balance
Speaker 3: Congress created end quote consigns the Safe Harbor provision to obsolescence,
Speaker 3: adding that ISPs no longer face any realistic probability of
Speaker 3: secondary liability for copyright infringement, regardless of whether they take
Speaker 3: steps to address infringement on their networks unquote. So again,
Speaker 3: I agree with the Supreme Court's decision on this, and
Speaker 3: but I'll be very curious, Like I said, I will
Speaker 3: be very curious to see on social media how you
Speaker 3: all feel about it, or you know, on YouTube, you
Speaker 3: can you know, we stream the show on YouTube, you
Speaker 3: can leave comments and so forth. But I really do
Speaker 3: want to get feedback on this, because, like I said,
Speaker 3: I know that my opinion may be unpopular in some circles,
Speaker 3: and but I'm happy to I'm happy to fight it
Speaker 3: out with anyone who wants to. All right, we are
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