News

‘Mandybill petition puts hacks in a spin’ – The Register

February 23rd, 2010

A nice article that summarises the latest development in the campaign against the Digital Economy Bill.

Fantasies of flip-flop on filesharers
A rash of reports fantasise today that the government has “dumped” or “abandoned” plans to boot the most persistent illegal filesharers off the internet.
The source of the reports is a sentence in a lengthy response to [...]

Why Bowie and the Grateful Dead are the web’s real visionaries – The Observer

February 22nd, 2010

If you want to know our online future, ask a musician, writes John Naughton in the Observer. Naughton cites an interview David Bowie had with the New York Times eight years ago, where he said: “I don’t even know why I would want to be on a label in a few years because I don’t [...]

Thousands view punk protest song tweeted by Stephen Fry

February 3rd, 2010

Thousands of people have viewed a punk protest song after Stephen Fry raved about it on Twitter.
Only Idiots Assume  written by Londoner Liam Mullone and sung by his friend Hils Barker, is a stinging attack on the Government’s plans to disconnect people suspected of watching films and music online without paying for the privilege.
 
Fry selected [...]