p2pnet.net news:- I’ve seen him with girls of the night/ And he told Roxanne to put on her red light/ They’re all infected but he’ll be alright/ Cause he’s a scumbag.

Those are some of the lyrics from the Arctic Monkeys’ , nominated for Best Song at the Ivor Novello awards.

“The song is favourite to win Best Song Musically and Lyrically, the top award given by the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters,” says The Times Online.

It’s also readily available on the p2p networks, which is appropriate since the Net set the band on the road to fame.

Unfortunately, the band is biting the hands that fed it.

“About to leak a copy of the new Arctic Monkeys album on the net?” – asked an earlier The Times Online article. “Don’t bother, unless you’re willing to risk a knock on the door from the Web Sheriff.”

The story went on:

.. Security surrounding Favourite Worst Nightmare, the hotly anticipated follow-up, is such that music writers must surrender to Arctic Monkeys’ London HQ for an advance hearing.

Now cutting-edge bands who built a following by letting fans trade MP3 song files are secretly hiring web enforcers to track down and remove unauthorised leaks that might destroy album sales.

The web detectives trace the source of a leak and individuals found to have deliberately spread copyright-protected material receive a personal visit followed by legal threats.

And didn’t The Police do a number about a girl called Roxanne not having to put on her red light?

Slashdot it!

Also See:
The Times Online – Red-light tale tipped for top Novello award, April 24, 2007
hands that fed it – Arctic Monkeys slags file sharers, April 5, 2007

If your Net access is blocked by government restrictions, try Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at thIs the endSurvey: How Did Copyright Infringement Become Equated with Robbery? (of the Net) nigh?zze University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies. Go here for the official download, here for the p2pnet download, and here for details. And if you’re Chinese and you’re looking for a way to access independent Internet news sources, try Freegate, the DIT program written to help Chinese citizens circumvent web site blocking outside of China. Download it here.

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