tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post3947298215917347098..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: High-Powered Begging For PenniesDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-68904480895722040782010-01-03T07:39:03.961+00:002010-01-03T07:39:03.961+00:00I can't remember when I last walked past a cha...I can't remember when I last walked past a charity shop, but I'm fairly sure I didn't hear any music inside...<br /><br /><i>"You are so wrong with this post it beggars belief. Get a grip you twat."</i> <br /><br />What exactly do you dispute? The facts and figures? The calculations made?<br /><br />As banned says, this is indeed more government control freakery, but the way to oppose it is not by nonsensical hyperbole about losses that can be disproved so easily. <br /><br />We need to fight back against this sort of thing (as Dick says in his opening passage) but we need to do it properly, and we need to be smart about it.JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-51573392121428846502010-01-03T03:38:07.847+00:002010-01-03T03:38:07.847+00:00More control freakery, very little of that £81 wil...More control freakery, very little of that £81 will ever get to recording artists once the cost of admin and enforcement are met.<br />Presumably this will mean the end of School Discos, Scouts and village hall mucicals, penshioners Salsa dance classes and suchlike?<br />Banning by stealth but to what end?<br /><br />There were reports of the Performing Rights soc (?) demanding fees from individual taxi drivers who put the radio on to 'entertain' their passengers, dunno how far they got with that one.bannedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406037760273820029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-29158754445390722312010-01-02T23:04:19.525+00:002010-01-02T23:04:19.525+00:00Andrew: Each donation you freely give already take...Andrew: Each donation you freely give already takes a big hit from admin costs anyway. £81 per year doesn't really make any significant dent in your giving.<br /><br />And I did say that Mandelson's proposals are wrong-headed anyway, for the same reason that you point out. It's just that charities are not best placed to cry foul.<br /><br />Simply stop the music or do as Paul Kearns cleverly suggested.Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-30884330379322569532010-01-02T22:54:22.786+00:002010-01-02T22:54:22.786+00:00You are so wrong on this one. So I go into a charo...You are so wrong on this one. So I go into a charoty shop, and also donate to the PRS. Fuck them. So in futire every pound I donate (freely) to charity now has an automatic deduction to those corporate fascists in the government and the record industry. You are so wrong with this post it beggars belief. Get a grip you twat.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08046970524842695943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-80415750069037135302010-01-02T22:17:47.083+00:002010-01-02T22:17:47.083+00:00I have a recording studio and a huge catalogue of ...I have a recording studio and a huge catalogue of music. I hereby donate all the tracks (well almost all) that we have to charity shops - so long as they are willing to carry an advert in their shops stating where the music cam from and promoting ,my little record label and it's artists.<br /><br />I am serious - someone's problem is someone else's opportunity.<br /><br />We have masses of original material that we would love to get to a wider audience and dear old Mandy can do fuck all about what I, as the label owner decide to do with our output.<br /><br />Simple really - anyone up for promoting this idea?<br /><br />I (and the artists I have recorded) would love to allow this to be played as a promotional exercise. <br /><br />PaulPaul Kearnshttp://www.thinciemusic.co.uknoreply@blogger.com