Billy Bragg, Charlie Angus, on digital culture
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The outgoing British Labour government wants to leave as its legacy a law to victimise members of the P2P communities, including children, who share with each other online.
“Initially the Government will aim to educate and those identified as downloading unlawfully, will be sent letters,” says the Telegraph. “If this proves insufficient, technical measures will be introduced — including the powers to disconnect pirates.”
The ‘graduated response’ Three Strikes plan, touted as separate ‘initiatives’ by individual governments such as Britain’s, is in fact a major component of a massive global entertainment industry scheme to acquire the net as an exclusive corporate marketing and distribution vehicle.
Big Music is in the forefront and the first effect of the adoption of any such plan will be to drive a huge wedge between online music fans and musicians. However, anyone accused by the cartels of being copyright infringers of corporate ‘product’ will utimately become targets as well.
With that the background, UK recording artist Billy Bragg (left) will join New Democrat Charlie Angus, himself a musician, to “talk about how artists, not corporate lawyers, are taking the lead on establishing basic rules for the development of digital culture online,” says an NDP statement.
“The internet brings fans and artists closer together than ever before and brings great benefits to both,” Bragg, a co-founder of the new artists-to-fans-to-artsts site, a2f2a.com, told p2pnet.
“Let’s not allow the record industry to keep us apart in order to protect their old broken business model.”
Hearings on digital culture and new media are set to start at the heritage committee, says Angus, adding he and Bragg will be joined by the Songwriters Association of Canada’s Don Quarles, and Wide Mouth Mason’s Safwan Javad, who’ll represent the Canadian Music Creators Coalition.
The meeting will be tomorrow at the National Press Theatre, 150 Wellington, Ottawa, at 10:00 am.
Stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
share with each other – Britain changes 3 strikes to 2 strikes, November 18, 2009
Telegraph Powers to disconnect pirates in Digital Economy Bill, November 18, 2009
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November 19th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Artists taking the lead? That’s a laugh. I haven’t seen the artists taking the lead in anything, so far. In fact, just the opposite. Look at the FAC and the three strikes thing.
I hope you have better luck in Canada than we’ve had here in the UK.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Incidentally, I’ll point out that the Deep Packet Inspection technology will work.
Bear in mind that it doesn’t have to really work it just has to be something will flashing lights and teletype noises to impress the visiting dignitaries.
As we know, you get disconnected from the Internet because the cartel have ACCUSED you of infringement. It doesn’t matter whether the DPI technology really works or not. They simply need something plausible to back up their suspicion as the cause for their accusation. And they won’t be presenting this to court judges and expert witnesses, but to the press.
No evidence is required.
No court is involved.
If the cartel doesn’t like the look of you or what you’re up to, security will eject you from what is now ‘DismalWorld Online’TM. If you’re not a consumer, you’re outta here!
‘Plausible deniability’ is no use to the accused except when they’re innocent until proven guilty. When you’re guilty until proven innocent, you need PROOF of innocence, and the accuser just needs plausible culpability.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:43 am
@ Jazz:
You can’t lump all artists into one category — plenty of them are behind fans, probaby the majority, if they had a way of making their thoughts known.
And I’ve been told by a FAC member that by no means did everyone vote for the 3 strikes scam.
Cheers!
November 21st, 2009 at 3:59 am
I would like to see FAC do a 180 on three strikes, the last statement they had on that was Sept 25th’s Air statement:
We the undersigned wish to express our support for Lily Allen in her campaign to alert music lovers to the threat that illegal downloading presents to our industry and to condemn the vitriol that has been directed at her in recent days.
Our meeting also voted overwhelmingly to support a three-strike sanction on those who persistently download illegal files, sanctions to consist of a warning letter, a stronger warning letter and a final sanction of the restriction of the infringerâs bandwidth to a level which would render file-sharing of media files impractical while leaving basic email and web access functional.
If that stands I will treat it exactly as it is, a declaration of war from the artists to the p2p community.