It's STILL not alright..alright?

Digital Economy Act becomes law (former DEB)

2010-04-09T15:53:00.000+01:00

Well done to all at UK Music for efforts and the Parliamentary time constraints imposed upon the DEB Bill...which is now Law and now known as the Digital Economy Act. Any pending new Gov't is now obliged to acknowledge this act, though further amendments and details might be debated.
The Former DEB Bill went to the House of Lords for final Act approval within hours of parliament officially ending yesterday April 8th 2010.

The entire Act is worded herehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/apr/08/digital-economy-bill-quick-guide-45-measures

What you need to know
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/mar/22/digital-economy-bill

Further News is live updated here
http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2009-10/digitaleconomy.html

Reports here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/apr/08/digital-economy-bill-reactions

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/apr/08/digital-economy-bill-passes-third-reading

Excellent start!
(Meanwhile I'm still waiting for someone (anon) to come back to me with a legal rep stating file sharing is legal and not theft on this blog 6 months ago...I did say it would be a long wait!

The death of the music industry graph 2009

2009-11-14T16:57:00.002Z

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/the-death-of-the-music-industry/

Forget stats..just look at these images representing the retrospective declines

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/opinion/01blow.html?_r=3

This is also an interesting article , if true on the ground, the trend to not illegally share is increasing, which is helpful support on longer term aims.

http://musically.com/blog/2009/07/13/filesharing-down-by-a-third-among-uk-teens/

online news

2009-11-13T11:15:00.000Z

http://news.google.com/?hl=en&q=ifpi+blogurl:http://itsstillnotalright.blogspot.com/&ie=UTF-8&client=blogsearch

weekly updates

http://news.google.com/news/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=uk&hl=en&q=ifpi+blogurl%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fitsstillnotalright.blogspot.com%2F&as_qdr=w&as_drrb=q&cf=all

piracy-report2006.pdf

2009-11-13T10:53:00.000Z

http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/piracy-report2006.pdf

http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/Piracy2005.pdf

Previous detailed reports/stats above

It's STILL not alright...stats/updates of effect

2009-11-13T10:42:00.002Z

http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20041007d.html

2009-11-13T10:40:00.000Z

http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20041007d.html

http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20041007c.html

2009-11-13T10:39:00.000Z

http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20041007c.html

Blog maintenance

2009-11-08T13:33:00.000Z

We will be unable to continue to personally answer ALL daily blogposts due to other commitments as from 8.11.09. However, the public debate continues, and we will maintain the blog site and links weekly. Thanks.

It's STILL not alright..alright?: illegal unauthorised file sharing IS ALWAYS OK

2009-11-07T09:53:00.000Z

It's STILL not alright..alright?: illegal unauthorised file sharing IS ALWAYS OK

http://flac.sourceforge.net/

http://flac.sourceforge.net/

2009-11-07T09:52:00.000Z

http://flac.sourceforge.net/

illegal unauthorised file sharing IS NEVER OK

2009-10-31T09:22:00.002Z

Explain why you think illegal unathorised file sharing IS NEVER OK, without the Artist/label firstly deciding any song/album file should be given away to the public.

illegal unauthorised file sharing IS ALWAYS OK

2009-10-31T09:20:00.002Z

Explain why you think illegal unathorised file sharing IS ALWAYS OK, without the Artist/label firstly deciding any song/album file should be given away to the public.

The ‘STILL not alright’ debate continues with the opening post as follows:

2009-10-30T15:46:00.000Z

The ‘STILL not alright’ debate continues with the opening post as follows

I like many, many other people inside our industry do not agree with unauthorised file sharing (music, films, books) at any level.

What we all will consider (including the artists) is controlled giveaways and promotional copies being given away to the real music fans (attending paid gigs) and any other choices made by the right holders or artists, as and when, they decide.
I believe at the end of the day no pirate/file sharing serial abuser is going to stop legitimate and managed legislation coming into effect simply because some hysterically claim a right to want to own more free stolen goods.

How about sharing your very own wages first? We might then start a utopian free-for-all.