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UK Copyright Under Fire Again
stupid_is writes "Following on from the story on the Gower Report in the UK, a host of musicians (over 4,500 of them, including poor, starving stars such as U2, Paul McCartney and Peter Gabriel) have taken out a big ad in the FT to back the call for an extension to copyright in the UK. Allegedly, that's what the British public wants — although the survey seems to be asking a different, rather biased, question." From the article: "A spokesman for the Open Rights Group, which campaigns for greater digital rights, said: 'The big music firms have done a good job of persuading some artists to sign up to this but anyone who reads the Gowers review will see it demolishes the arguments for extension. An awful lot of content creators are not represented by this and recognise an extension will do nothing for creativity and nothing for the public.'"
I'm thrilled to see this, because it exposes the big lie which everyone uses to justify their illegal and immoral violation of music copyrights, that they're just stickin' it to the evil music companies and that the artists implicitly support these downloads. It's time once and for all for you people to realize that you are screwing over the artists when you pirate their music. Let that be on your conscience.
I don't expect you to stop, but at least stop lying to yourself and pretending that you aren't hurting the very people creating the music you love.