Great video – and as it says, many of the mashups played on Radio Clash or ones you download from here and elsewhere, non-‘podsafe’ podcasts you enjoy could and probably will be classed as illegal downloads – putting your connection at risk if the Digital Economy Bill is passed – doesn’t matter how transformative, how political (re: this video, rx2008 and Cassetteboy), or artistic and creative (Eclectic Method, Osymyso, Earworm, Girl Talk if you must) they are – still illegal downloads, and this bill makes no provision for them (as was originally mooted – all we got is a vague flabby concession on orphan works).
Not to mention the wonderful work Wikileaks is doing (as talked about on my personal blog, if you haven’t checked out Collateral Murder and the video of the killing of 2 journalists and several innocents in Iraq in 2007 while the kiddies on the trigger describe it as ‘nice’ ‘oh yeah look at those dead bastards’ like it was some kind of video game) which would be endangered by bills like this – for copyright law is always used to censor by corporates, government, religions and military.
So remember this debate when your MPs and their elves come-a-knockin’ on your door on the run up to the election. Where they there? Well this tool might tell you who ignored the 20,000 letters and couldn’t be bothered to turn up – apparently only a handful (numbers are debated especially by Labour’s Twitter Tsar – methinks the lady protest too much!) turned up last night. Was your MP there? I’d love to post a list, if it existed EDIT – someone has, of sorts: http://debillitated.heroku.com/ …
It’s an odd day when you find me agreeing with John Redwood (who bothered to be there and contributed as a voice of reason over the rushing of this bull bill) as well as usual suspects such as Tom Watson and Austin Mitchell (ditto, wish they were my MP!).
I mean even the inventor of the very thing you are reading this on is against it.
So whose side are you on?
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