A2f2a – Billy Bragg cuts out the middleman

“Fellow artists, the aim of this site is to encourage dialogue between people who love music and people who love making music. Our aim is to explore, through constructive debate, how our two communities can work together to shape the music industry to reflect our needs, rather than those of the multi-national corporations that control the recording industry.” – Billy Bragg on A2f2a

What should they have done? (doesn’t really matter)

“1999 saw the debut of Napster – the net-based software that let people share their music collections. It started a storm of change in the music industry and here Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI, reflects on what has happened in the last 10 years.” Read the original article from Geoff Taylor here

And some more from BBC news on his comments with a response from Jim Killock, head of the Open Rights Group over here

But since that was all a bit thin, here‘s a more interesting articles with some relevant links.

Hmm, pretty uncool stuff.

“The jury’s determination that defendant Jammie Thomas-Rasset must pay $1.92 million to the RIAA for making 24 songs available on the P2P network Kazaa seems at first glance to be a big victory for the music industry. However, the size of the penalty itself may provide grounds for appeal. It bolsters the argument that the copyright system is broken, suggests EFF attorney Fred von Lohmann.”

Check the article here