Tag: Peter Mandelson
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Welcome to Digital Britain, a drowned economic kitten
Great anti-Mandy and anti-paranoia song ‘Only Idiots Assume’ by Broken Dongles who are Liam Mullone and “Blue Remembered” Hils Barker. Love the kitten line, the BBC Micro comparison and ‘your dad’s got a beard! I bet he’s in Al Qaeda!’ 😀 Maybe their followup should be a cover/version of EMI about the blight that is…
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“analogue business model in a digital era”
I love this quote from Ed O’Brien from Radiohead, about to speak at MIDEM about Filesharing: “I have a problem when people in the industry say ‘it’s killing the industry, it’s the thing that’s ripping us apart’. I don’t actually believe it is … (Pirates) might not buy an album, but they’re spending their money…
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2009 in music
No not a list post as I’ve railed against before; just a review of the year. You can add random numbers to it if you want, especially if you want it to make less sense. Feel free to then argue the results bitterly in the comments, across twitter and thus the national press who now…
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Sir Bonarar – 3 Strikes and you’re out! Howzat! Good show!
Bonzer work from those awfully nice chaps (and ladies) at Open Rights Group. What ho! I could write novels about the whole 3 strikes farrago and Mandy’s Pirate Finder General nonsense…I’m not ignoring it, in fact I got a letter from Stephen Timms in response to the letter I wrote to Glenda. It was a…
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Dan Bull’s Open Letter to Mandy, the Pirate Finder General
After his wonderful letter to Lily Allen, Dan Bull does it again – this time an open letter sung to everyone’s favourite Pirate Finder General and Geffen-loving big corporate shill, Peter Mandelson.