{"id":56115,"date":"2009-11-30T18:36:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T23:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091130\/0445237119.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-30T18:36:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T23:36:09","slug":"dear-peter-mandelson-dan-bull-sings-his-opposition-to-kicking-people-off-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/56115","title":{"rendered":"Dear Peter Mandelson&#8230; Dan Bull Sings His Opposition To Kicking People Off The Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musician <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/danbull\" >Dan Bull<\/a> seems to be carving out a nice space for himself responding to UK efforts to make copyright law more ridiculous than it already is, by voicing his opposition in song.  A few months back, we wrote about his awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20090927\/1825076330.shtml\">open letter to Lily Allen<\/a> (full disclosure: I get a brief mention) and now he&#8217;s informed us that he&#8217;s back again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6_P4lJD_OPI\" >with an open letter (in song) to Peter Mandelson, called Dear Mandy<\/a>:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6_P4lJD_OPI&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6_P4lJD_OPI&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nI wonder if someone rich and famous has to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20090816\/2111135888.shtml\">buy Mandelson dinner<\/a> before he&#8217;ll actually listen to it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091130\/0445237119.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091130\/0445237119.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091130\/0445237119&#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=25f43a04fe1b82a70e4b876374189706&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=25f43a04fe1b82a70e4b876374189706&#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=ySFx-ZcdJck:OZOy0dHq-0w:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=ySFx-ZcdJck:OZOy0dHq-0w:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=ySFx-ZcdJck:OZOy0dHq-0w: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\/ySFx-ZcdJck\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician Dan Bull seems to be carving out a nice space for himself responding to UK efforts to make copyright law more ridiculous than it already is, by voicing his opposition in song. A few months back, we wrote about his awesome open letter to Lily Allen (full disclosure: I get a brief mention) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56115","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=56115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}