Archive for June, 2007
Rock star says piracy battle is lost
Great article From The Register.
Major record labels are still fighting the piracy battles of 1997 according to a leading rock musician and digital rights activist.
Blur drummer Dave Rowntree told OUT-LAW that they should have realised in 1997 that their battle was already lost.
“If you turn back the clock when all this stuff was still on the horizon, the key realisation to have made was that we had lost the war already,” Rowntree told OUT-LAW Radio, the weekly technology law podcast. “That’s what I was going round telling everybody 10 years ago, saying ‘the horse has bolted, there’s no way of undoing what has been done already, the only thing you can do is to try and turn your business around so that you turn this into a plus rather than a minus’.”
Read More here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/15/rowntree_music_piracy/
Taxi Doll News
UK DJ, Pete Tong played Taxi Doll’s “Waiting” June 1st during his BBC 1 Radio Show. To listen to the show and request the song, click here.