[pp.int.general] Protest certain musicians?

[Brian McNeil]

On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 14:30 +0200, Bernhard Schillo wrote:
> Richard Stallman schrieb:
> >     To get back to your suggestion: I think, we would give artists who 
> >     oppose filesharing too much attention with protesting them. They are not 
> >     really important and in the most cases they wouldn't have success 
> >     without the monopoly industry behind them.
> >
> > I beg to differ.
> >
> > The musicians I am talking about are famous and influential.
> > They have a big income due to public admiration.
> > Protests at their concerts would make news, and would make an
> > impact on them too.
> >   
> What musicians you are talking about concretely? Okay, Metallica would
> match that. Who else? Like i said before, in my opinion it would depend
> on the individual case. There was a quite unknown singer/songwriterin in
> the press in the last months cause of her statements on filesharing (i
> don't remember her name). I had the impression, that she used this
> discussion as a vehicle to get media attention. She is not only
> singer/songwriterin but also actor. So the media coverage was good for
> her, even if she ended her career as singer/songwriterin. It wouldn't be
> a good idea to help such people to get media attention.

I believe you mean Lily Allan from the UK.

Set up an anti-filesharing blog and got 'busted' for sharing mix tapes
she'd created with other people's music.

This was the best bit of it to me - someone used her music with pointed
lyrics...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL9-esIM2CY

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