{"id":282238,"date":"2010-02-05T01:49:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T06:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100204\/0219048047.shtml"},"modified":"2010-02-05T01:49:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T06:49:26","slug":"uks-digital-economy-bill-does-promote-new-music-but-its-songs-against-the-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/282238","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s Digital Economy Bill Does Promote New Music&#8230; But It&#8217;s Songs Against The Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little while back, we posted about Dan Bull&#8217;s excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20091130\/0445237119.shtml\">song protesting<\/a> Peter Mandelson&#8217;s Digital Economy Bill, which (among other things) would force ISPs to kick off users accused of file sharing, and grant the UK Business Secretary incredible sweeping powers to change copyright law at will.  And while the stated purpose behind such a law is to &#8220;help protect the entertainment industry&#8221; it seems that it&#8217;s actually incentivizing the creation of new works in a different way.  Martin points us to a competition that was recently held for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dontdisconnect.us\/category\/winners\/\" >songs about the Digital Economy Bill<\/a>.  The &#8220;winning&#8221; song is called &#8220;Only Idiots Assume&#8221; and is a punk ditty with some choice words for Peter Mandelson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100204\/0219048047.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100204\/0219048047.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100204\/0219048047&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=44e1beee184d820aa1568b054ea15f5c&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=44e1beee184d820aa1568b054ea15f5c&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=oE6j9ZaNI7A:a8DSFcCsQz0:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=oE6j9ZaNI7A:a8DSFcCsQz0:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=oE6j9ZaNI7A:a8DSFcCsQz0:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/oE6j9ZaNI7A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little while back, we posted about Dan Bull&#8217;s excellent song protesting Peter Mandelson&#8217;s Digital Economy Bill, which (among other things) would force ISPs to kick off users accused of file sharing, and grant the UK Business Secretary incredible sweeping powers to change copyright law at will. And while the stated purpose behind such a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}