Tag: BPI
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Get Off Mah Lawn: BPI, Filters & Law
Missed this missive about the BPI…who from personal experience are a complete bunch of numpties, so I approve. All those royalties go to the highest sellers, not the actual poorer/smaller artists. It’s a complete protection racket, and true that the record labels loved underground scenes – like mashups – but publicly didn’t want to be…
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Denial of Service
No not talking about Twitter (although I have to say, a site that depends on Javascript for deleting or posting but doesn’t disable it in the posts is incredibly negligent and stupid. I mean, security 101 here?!? And make your site not need Javascript too!) but that following the news that the film industry has…
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Death of the single, Music Industry is dead right?
Well what with all the file sharing and like it must be hitting sales. What? No? Who says? The British Phonographic Industry? The same ones that wrote the disconnection clause in the Digital Economy Act? Fed spiked and overdramatic info to MPs that influenced the debate? And the ones that went loggerheads with MI5 and…
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Vote Them Out + my donation to the cause
Vote Them Out – Jeremy Hunt by / image by Andrew Harrison/PA. Feel free to share this, although I don’t own the image – if that’s a problem use the CC one below. Also feel free to use, remix and adapt my bits, they’re fully Creative Commons After posting my LOOOOOONG list of MPs who…