Yeh, Billy Bragg, but what about the indies?
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Seeing the p2pnet post on UK ex-alternative rock star Billy Bragg’s views on ‘illegal’ filesharing and how to stop it , “What about real independent artists whom are not part of FAC because they are not on any label?” – asks frequent poster Robert (right) in a Reader’s Write . FAC is short for Featured Artists Coalition, a group that, “overwhelmingly” supports 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 infringer’s bandwidth to a level which would render file-sharing of media files impractical while leaving basic email and web access functional”
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