Hope Taping is Killing Music

The government remains determined to pass its Digital Economy Bill, despite its provisions for secret, unaccountable state censorship, bullying websites corporate media doesn’t like off the web, wiping out wireless networks merely for a single accusation of ‘piracy’ levelled against one of their users, and throwing entire households off the internet itself. Dan Bull and TalkTalk have collaborated to create the video below, which is supposed to illustrate just how ‘damaged’ corporate music was by the introduction of previous new technologies it didn’t like.

If you haven’t already emailed your MP to force a debate on, or preferably to kill this Bill (which would severely further damage the rule of law in this country), you can do so easily and quickly here. Noone is denying that copyright needs to be reformed, or that there aren’t genuine problems associated with piracy; this Bill solves neither problem.