Lily Allen, Ed O’Brien protest 6 Music close
p2pnet view P2P | Radio:- Aunty, aka the BBC, Britain’s once-revered national broadcaster, is shutting down two digital radio stations, as p2pnet was pretty much alone in reporting on Tuesday.
Axed are 6 Music and Asian Network, with BBC Switch and BBC Blast, two multimedia outputs aimed at teenagers, also facing amputation.
Protesting the 6 Music closure are UK singer Lily Allen and Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien, both staunch supporters of the organised entertainment cartel’s Three Strikes plan currently being touted by various governments which believe they owe allegiance to Hollywood and Big music rather than the people who elected them.
On the 6 Music closure, O’Brien has posted an open protest letter on the Radiohead site, and the Guardian has an ‘OpEd’ from Alan on the same subject.
However, given that O’Brien is a founder and director of the Featured Artists’ Coalition and Alan is one of its supporters, if not an actual member, he might well change his mind about arguing against the shut-down.
And Allen? Well, the last time she got excited, her hysterical outburst inspired O’Brien, and the rest of his pals on the FAC board, to do a complete about-face on their much-publicised decision to stand against the Three Strikes element of ACTA, an entertainment cartel scam.
Under it, national governments would become corporate copyright agents and ISPs, copyright enforcers against their own customers.
People accused of sharing with each other online could, at the behest of the corporate movie and music industries, be thrown off the net.
And all in the name of protecting the bottom lines of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Disney, News Corp, Time Warner, Viacom, NBC Universal and Sony Pictures.
Both Alan and O’Brien are claiming the 6 Music closure would adversely affect indie music and musicians, which is passing strange given that both have done, and are still doing, far worse by openly backing the Three Strikes plan.
However, their positions are understandable.
Once you get into bed with Big Music and Hollywood, day becomes night, black becomes white, and lies become truth.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
pretty much alone – BBC to close 6 Music and Asian Network, March 2, 2010
Guardian – Lily Allen: Why we must save BBC 6 Music, March 2, 2010
ACTA – New Zealand ‘tough’ on ACTA, March 2, 2010
complete about-face – Dear Ed O’Brien …, January 23, 2010
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March 4th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
Just to make sure the finger is being pointed at the right person, it’s “Allen” (not “Alan”).
March 4th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
@ DA:
I knew that. heh. (And I really did – but there’s a lot happening at the moment — stay tuned — and you know how we old folks are ….
)
March 4th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
“…you know how we old folks are …”
Why, er, no!
Perhaps you could hum a few bars of it?
Don’t know what you’re implying!
March 4th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
@ DA:
Sorry? What were you saying? …
Cheers!
March 6th, 2010 at 3:44 am
“Protesting the 6 Music closure are UK singer Lily Allen ”
Out of respect to Joss Stone, we should put “singer” in quotes.
http://www.spinner.com/2009/11/04/joss-stone-says-lily-allen-is-not-a-singer/
It’s ironic that the same people who want to kill P2P are against closing down a distribution medium called radio that, like P2P, doesn’t pay royalties to the artist or label and allows fans to listen without paying.