One by one the UK’s ISPs are falling to a creeping censorship of the web led not by some secretive government organisation but by the UK’s music industry in the shape of the British Phonographic Industry, the British record industry’s trade association. There is no democratic check on what’s happening and little recourse left open to the average person.
In a nice piece of investigation, Zack… → Read More
Not too long ago it looked like British music pirates—a fine name for a band—were facing expulsion from the Internet. Not anymore. Despite “serious legislative intent,” the British Government will not pursue the plan. Hooray, I guess. → Read More
Virgin Music sent 800 letters to “file-sharers” warning them that if they don’t read the pamphlet on being a good copyright user their broadband could be shut off. Did Virgin have any power over user’s broadband? No, but it’s always nice to get a letter in the mail, isn’t it? The addressees were collected by the UK’s BPI and sent out to discourage folks… → Read More
Flickr’d In order to force people to buy plastic discs with music encoded on them, the British Phonographic Industry (more or less the UK’s RIAA) has started sending mean and nasty letters to ISPs there. Only problem is, these mean and nasty letters have had the exact opposite effect the BPI had in mind. Rather than turn around and say, “Oh, our users are pirating your music? Tragic. → Read More
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