Since the BPI and chums have been successful in getting the Digital Economy Bill passed through the Lords by an elevated unelected Peter Mandelson, I’ve decided to make a small gesture by stopping my Spotify Premium subscription since there are good number of BPI members who are shareholders of the service – that’s right, they own a good chunk of Spotify. The consequence of record labels owning Spotify is that they dictate how much money the aritsts themselves get. From what I’ve been reading, this isn’t very much at all.
I’ve instead decided to put the money I used for Spotify into HideMyAss, a VPN proxy system which proxies your connection through to a variety of servers in different countries. It’s actually very useful in watching services that restrict by geographical location. Which will be useful when the UK Government start blocking particular services it deems as being potential copyright infringers. All thanks to that new gal in town, DEB.
