Mark Thomas talks about the Digital economy Bill

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whynotandy | February 05, 2010

Comedian & Activist Mark Thomas talks to Billy Bragg (co-founder of the F...

whynotandy | February 05, 2010

Comedian & Activist Mark Thomas talks to Billy Bragg (co-founder of the Featured Artist Coalition) & Feargal Sharkey (head of UK Music) and discusses the challenges the music industry faces from illegal downloads and the potential impact of the UK Governments proposed Digital economy Bill.

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  • a law that makes most of the population criminals, should not be a law in the first place.

  • It's called file sharing, not file stealing. How can you steal a sequence of 1's and 0's. Being an electrical engineer I laugh at these companies. We created the TECHNOLOGIES that they profited from, now we've ADVANCED. The whole distribution of old is no longer needed. They need to get in touch with the real world. Once the recording equipment costs have been recovered, the price of albums should be pennies, and free after 10 years.

    Seriously should teachers demand royalties?

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  • The digital economy bill needs to let people share music. Virgin Media are using CView because of Timms and Mandy!

  • I just looked at maps.fon.com It's part of the Fon Wifi network. There are Wifi hotspots all over the UK and rest of the world. BT are investors in this network but they have potentially lobbied the UK Gov to close down open Wifi. Also, these Wifi Hotspots must be a subsystem of existing customers BT Broadband Home Hubs. do these customers know ?

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  • @stivante 

  • Someone's NOT making the millions that they used to make....

    OH NOES!!! SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET AND FREESPEECH!!!

    Monitor Everyone's Emails and Scan all internet traffic!!

  • "Now I've got a cousin called Kevin

    He's sure to go to heavin

    Always spotless clean and neat

    The smoothest you can get them..."

    Don't sweat it Fergal - no one's going to be nicking that.

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  • All the media that inculcates you just defended themselves into a corner. Start listening to Indy music that doesn't buy into thier defended corner. The guts of the bill is they can monitor you but each individual can encrypt. So the bill is just a red herring.

  • Corporations won't "get thier way" just move somewhere else cut out the middle man and stop consuming the media that buys into the bill.

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