Peter Bradwell
Researcher
Peter Bradwell is a researcher at Demos. He is interested in digital identity, technology and the ways that information and knowledge is shared...
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- Nothing is Free So Universal has signed up to the incoming download site SpiralFrog - which promises to offer free music and rely instead on advertising for revenue. For those of us who see the big-players of the music industry's reaction to digital music as the example of industry fudging - through misunderstanding - the promise of new technologies, this might come as a surprise. But I suspect that amidst the extraordinary publicity the news has generated, we might miss an important distinction that unlocks some questions that are rather more interesting than whether we can get free Razorlight tracks. from : petebradwell 30th August 2006
- Friday Rant - Simple Red I haven't ranted for a while so here goes...Mick Hucknall, in what I can only describe as the most perplexingly misguided and confused piece of writing I have ever seen, argued yesterday in the Guardian that copyright is fundamentally socialist, and implored 'real' Labour supporters who 'really' believe in Labour values to support the extension of copyright beyond the current 50 years. The piece is beyond nonsense... from : petebradwell 24th November 2006
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You are not anonymous
At the home of former file-sharing service Grokster, you will find a stern reminder of the illegality of p2p content sharing - followed by a thoroughly sinister last couple of lines:
"YOUR IP ADDRESS IS xx.xx.xxx.xxx AND HAS BEEN LOGGED.Don't think you can't get caught. You are not anonymous." from : petebradwell 17th July 2007 -
The sheet music hits the fan
Indie 'lifers' Oasis have been causing quite a stir recently. Firstly, because someone assaulted Noel Gallagher on stage in Canada. Someone filmed it, predictably, and popped it up on YouTube.
But secondly, they are giving away a song book free with NME. The scheme has been widely hailed as helping to promote a new generation of musicians, by giving them the tools and encouragement to reinterpret their favourite bands' work. But that very activity is something parts of the music industry have been trying to stamp out... from : petebradwell 10th September 2008