Read his full post at: http://www.akirathedon.com/2009/09/f-the-fac/
I'm excerpting this letter because it really should be spat on by as many people as possible:
On September 24th a very special meeting took place at Air Studios in London. It was an unprecedented gathering of artists who all met in the spirit of collaboration and with the aim of discussing the very challenging issue of file-sharing and how it affects the lives of so many artists and all the people that support them in creating the music that we all know and love.
The statement below is the result of that meeting…
The Air Statement:
We the undersigned wish to express our support for Lily Allen in her campaign to alert music lovers to the threat that illegal downloading presents to our industry and to condemn the vitriol that has been directed at her in recent days.
Our meeting also voted overwhelmingly to support a three-strike sanction on those who persistently download illegal files, sanctions to consist of a warning letter, a stronger warning letter and a final sanction of the restriction of the infringer’s bandwidth to a level which would render file-sharing of media files impractical while leaving basic email and web access functional.
Signed:
Tim Rice-Oxley (Keane)
Jamie Turner
Adriano Buffone (Raygun)
Allan Bradbury
Helienne Lindvall
Tony Crean
Andrew Laidlaw (Luck Soul)
Isard Haasakker
Tony Morrelli (The Fire Escapes)
Jean-Baptiste Pilon (The Fire Escapes)
Mark Headley (The Fire Escapes)
Hal Ritson (The Young Punx)
Billy Bragg
Ben Ward
Karl Harrison
Howard Jones
Tjinder Singh (Cornershop)
Phil Simpson
Athleen
Steve Jones
John Reynolds
Sandie Shaw (via phone)
David Rowntree (Blur)
Ed O’Brien (Radiohead)
Alan Sharland (The Hoosiers)
Martin Skarendahl (The Hoosiers)
Steven Hogarth (Marillion)
Mark Kelly (Marillion)
Guy Chambers
Patrick Wolf
Sam Duckworth (Get Cape Wear Cape Fly)
Jamie Allen
Toby Sebastian
James Kelly
Beryl Marsden
George Jones
Ross Millard (The Futureheads)
Stax Dempsey
Rona Sentinar
Fran Healy (Travis)
Karl Addy
Nathan Taylor (The Young Punx)
Josh Allegro
Ali Howard (Lucky Soul)
David Arnold
Lucy Pullin (The Fire Escapes)
Annie Lennox (via phone)
Lily Allen (Not a Member of the FAC)
George Michael
Nick Mason (Pink Floyd)
Signed After the meeting;
The Music Producers Guild
John B
Claudia Brucken (Propaganda)
Rick Wilde
The Air Statement can be found on our website www.featuredartistscoalition.com
We also have two fantastic events coming up for artists. See the events section of our home page for more info.
Taste that? In the back of your mouth? Yeah, that'll be the little bit of vomit that it's impossible to keep down when you speculate about the gall of a bunch of no-account indie pricks (and one or two of my favourite singers, grown tragically anachronistic) supporting a 'three strikes' law against filesharing. That anyone, anywhere could think it even slightly acceptable to remove from 7 million people the right to participate in one of the most incandescently transformative, intelligence squaring technologies ever invented in order to briefly prop up a rotten, vacuous industry that is doomed anyway for basic economic reasons while continuing to funnel the money of recession-hit teenagers to Lily Allen - that anyone could support such a backward, ludicrous and neophobe idea is beyond me. That people who call themselves artists can do so makes me want to drown them all in their own mucus and spend a decade inventing transhumanist consciousness-uploading just so as I can send them all to a special virtual hell.
Fuck the FAC, fuck you if you agree with them, and fuck the FAC again. There is a war coming. Pick a side.
5 comments:
I choose the side of the common person who can't always afford to purchase an album right away, so they download it, then purchase it when they can save up the funds.
F the FAC, let them burn in their greedy mental and soon-after supernatural hell.
greedy swine.How dare they charge for their work.I dont care if they spent 6 months or a year and how much money making their poxy records, they then expect us to pay for it, something that we evidently want to own,just dont want to pay for.Choose a side,and when you pick the side of thinking its ok to download illegally then I will come to your work and let your employer know that you shouldnt be paid for what you do either.
Ive never read a more flimsy ,ignorant set of no excuse crap as I have when it comes to downloading.
it appears to me the only greedy burn in hell mental people here are the ones who think its their right to take some one elses work for free.
hmm, edwardG well you're welcome to come to my work as a recording artist who can't make any money - perhaps to the studio where I've been recording an album for the last month - and tell my boss (me, I suppose?) that I shouldn't be paid for my work, but seeing as how I already did that on the internet, I don't think it would make much difference.
It's strange that some of the signatories to that statement began their careers at a point when everyone realised that file-sharing had changed the complexion of the music industry irreversibly and yet still want to pretend that the concept of P2P file-sharing can somehow be uninvented and the populace would be willing to revert to the 20th century model. If you formed an indie band within the last ten years, you didn't do it for job security.
But I suppose that pretending it's 1965 is probably second nature to Lucky Soul, come to think of it.
Side was picked a while ago (founder member #750 of the Open Rights Group).
See you on the barricades.
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