Helping children in America’s still-recovering storm-ravaged Gulf Coast …
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‘… artists are waking up to a horrid reality: dirty Uncle Industry has been shagging them in their sleep.’
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First ‘the Government will aim to educate … those identified as downloading unlawfully’ will get letters. If this fails, ‘technical measures will be introduced – including the powers to disconnect’.
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Delivering guitars and fiddles to children at the Harts Intermediate School — followed by a concert 
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There seems to be a real misunderstanding as to just what the purpose of the internet is, “usually espoused by people promoting a mandatory isp tax levy …”
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Analysis, “sheds some factual light on the claims and counter-claims that are paranoically sweeping across the music industry …”
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“Every country should have a ‘Public Domain Commission’ to help decide what money goes where.”
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“What you’ve described is not the first time such a thing has been proposed. And every such proposal always fails to address the many problems such a levy brings …”
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“To blame piracy for the decline of music revenues — or to single out pirates as the main source of income — overlooks that complexity, and merely provides a PR sideshow to the main story …”
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The most obvious reason why the p2p community hates the RIAA is bacause we know they’ll sue anything that moves. But it’s not the only reason …
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Music fans could legally share and download music without requiring ISPs to ‘police or pressure their customers’ and would ‘reward artists and rights holders’,
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Today, I’m emailing indie musicians I’ve tracked down online. And anyone with 15 minutes to spare can do the same. 
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She’s [Lily Allen] not going to win [the] fight [over downloads]. None of us will win that fight. So let’s just accept it and see it as something that can be beautiful and might change music for the better.
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“I’m not a musician. I’m a fan.
“And from my perspective, it’s clear that fans do want to support artists that they like.”
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The act would reduce the term from 50 years to 35 years seems like a lot but with life expectancy being 70 years or so 35 years is half a lifetime,” says Paul Kamp. “I would push for a shorter term than 35 years.”
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EU member states recently agreed on a telecom reform clause, “prohibiting national authorities from excluding users from the internet without a court order”. But at the 11th hour, it’s been drastically watered down.
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Innocent people won’t be “cut off willy-nilly on the basis of an accusation,” promises UK culture secretary Ben Bradshaw in a Q&A with Labour MP Tom Watson.