<html><body><span style="font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Couldn't agree more - if an artist is bemoaning their music being downloaded for nothing there's nothing to say they wouldn't rethink that view were there a fairer system of distribution that were to provide them with income at the expense of record companies who do sod all to promote creativity. </div>
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<div>Education and conversion, not demonisation, is the way forward in this argument. Imagine the positive publicity if someone like Lily Allen was to come out and say "actually I've just read more on both sides of the argument and I now support the Pirates' political stance".</div>
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<div >-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] Protest certain musicians?<BR>From: Ed Galligan <ed.galligan@gmail.com><BR>Date: Mon, October 26, 2009 8:31 am<BR>To: Pirate Parties International -- General Talk<BR><pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net><BR><BR>
<DIV>This is a truly awful idea on so many levels.</DIV>
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<DIV>Firstly, on principle, we should be protesting the "industry" exclusively. Regardless of individual artists' opinions, they are not the ones actively cracking down on sharing and profiting from anti-piracy litigation. Nor are they in any way the architects of the current system.</DIV>
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<DIV>Secondly, on a pragmatic level - imagine turning up at any concert with an audience full of fans and attempting to protest the one person they are *devoted* enough to to pay to come and see live. Hardly the ideal approach.</DIV>
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<DIV>We need positive educational approach to bringing people around to the reality of IP - negative, combative ideas like this just create dissent.</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></span></body></html>