Jello angers major label executives / speaks at H2K2

Moldy writes us with this info from Alternative Tentacles. AT head Jello Biafra was invited to participate in the "Plug In" conference put on by Jupiter Media Metrics in New York last week. He was asked to speak to major label and dot-com music executives on the future of digital music. Instead, Jello took the opportunity to tell the audience "what he thinks of the major's horrible music and why they deserve to be file-shared and downloaded and how happy he would be if they all went out of business." AT estimates that only 5% of the executives walked out during Jello's segment.

Hillary Rosen of the RIAA gave the keynote speech at the event, which featured discussions such as "What Teens Want." This included a panel of four "real" teenagers, three of which said they acquire all of their music via filesharing. Another discussion was titled "Artists Are Brands," which AT indicates Jello walked out on.

Jello then headed across town to the H2K2 hackers conference put on by 2600 Magazine as a last minute addition to the bill. He reiterated his "hack the planet" piece from "Become The Media" and spoke of his experience at the Plug In conference. At the conclusion of the night "he put on his DJ hat and played tracks from his newly acquired corporate sales convention LPs, such as "the pepsi universe", "pepsi is everywhere", "the big bottling plant up in the sky", "the exon dealer's wife", and "atom and evil" - from a GE musical performed for executives."