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 [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: copyright, David Bowie, ipod, John Naughton, music labels, The Grateful Dead
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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 [...]
Tags: Digital Economy Bill, Hils Barker, Liam Mullone, Only Idiots Assume, sing our petition, stephen fry
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