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Listed below are comments made by danieldui between Sunday, 27th July 2008 and Friday, 14th November 2008.

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Stimulating the global economy 5:37pm on 14 Nov 2008 Condemning protectionism is certainly the right message to send. But is this not at odd with "British jobs for British workers"?
BPI v ISPs - who's won on music piracy? 9:22pm on 27 Jul 2008 This is another shocking initiative that reduces freedom in the UK and that puts people under surveilance.

The BBC (TV news in particular) has done a very bad job reporting this as a measure against the "piracy problem". Music piracy is a problem only for the major record labels. It's a great thing for consumers and for independent artists!

The BBC reported that the "music industry" is in a crisis. This is just wrong: Profits in the "recording industry" are in decline, but the music industry as a whole is doing great. Music consumption has never been so high. Today many people have hundreds or thousands of music tracks on their PCs and mp3 players. How many people ten years ago would have had such a vast collection? How many of these collections would have included tracks by independent artists, DJ sets, podcasts, etc.

This is a bad law by a bad government who is putting the interest of big record labels before people's choice and s privacy, and before the interest of independent artists.

The BBC has done a poor job. It has been acting as a megaphone for the government and for BPI, rather than reporting objectively the facts and informing competently its audience.

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