p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Well, I’ve stayed out of the Billy Bragg mess so far (except for two small exceptions): First, there was the “corporate sockpuppets should just shut the fuck up” comment), which, despite any notions Mister Bragg might have, wasn’t specifically directed at him, but at corporate sock-puppetry in general.
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- The recent dust-up involving Lily Allen , FAC (Featured Artists Coalition), and, basically, the entire rest of the online — and P2P — using world, brings up a few interesting issues I don’t think are being discussed very often: FAC MEMBERS ARE NOT P2P-FRIENDLY True, they often TALK like they’re P2P-friendly (all their blather about p2p as an important ‘promotion tool’ etc), but they showed their true colors with their statement ’supporting’ Lily Allen and advocating throttling as a punitive measure against p2p users. Their position may be less evil than that expressed by the RIAA, BREIN, BPI, or IFPI, but the mere fact they advocate any kind of ‘punishment’ for noncommercial file-sharing indicates, at the very least, severely mixed feelings in regard to filesharing itself, and more broadly, at least implicit agreement with the RIAA -member- corporations’ view of copyright. LILY ALLEN IS A PAWN Despite her self-proclaimed ‘indie’ status, Lily Allen is every bit as much of a corporate product as Milli Vanilli.
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