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A POLITICAL party
fighting the MP3 cause has been accepted by the
UK Electoral Commission.
The MP3 Party wants to
encourage rebellion against corporations trying
to kill off free MP3 file-sharing.
Its temporary leader,
Russian-born Ruslan Fedorovsky, told us the
party would be free to join and represent the
interests of a generation criminalised by MP3
swapping.
"MP3 is not just about
getting free music, it's a proclamation of a
generation," he said. "It's already a political
movement. It was political from day one when the
music industry began its assault on
Napster."
One proposed slogan
for the party is: "Elect us and we will delete
one regulation per day, one law per week, one
subsidy per month and one tax per year."
Brilliant. Fedorovsky
doesn't know it yet, but he's created a monster
- this is almost certain to get young apathetic
voters off their backsides.
The domain names http://www.freemp3party.com/
and http://www.mp3freeparty.com/
have been registered as the party's HQ. But it's
still early days and Fedorovsky, who also runs
Audiobooksforfree.com, has yet to build the
websites and write the manifesto.
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NET
NEWS
IT'S taken a while
(years, in fact) but finally the music labels
have realised consumers won't be dictated
to.
Making a stunning
concession Pressplay, the online music service
from Sony and Universal, has made a U-turn on
downloads.
It's now offering an
unlimited supply of music, and as many downloads
as you can handle, for a single annual fee of
about £130.
Still pricey but it is
a step in the right direction.
Now all we need is
rival subscription service, MusicNet, to catch
up and merge with PressPlay to offer one great
website for music downloads.
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THE show might be over
(thank God) but sadly, the obsessions
aren't.
Yahoo found itself
facing a tirade of abuse from sad Big Brother
fans when trying to pull its BB site down.
Desperate addicts, it
seems, can't face life without the
intellectually-challenged house enemies. So out
of sympathy (what other explanation is there?)
Yahoo relented, and the Big Brother Addicts site
remains, even though it's well past the time for
people to let go and get a life.
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BE CAREFUL what you
download from Kazaa and other file-sharing
services these days as hidden viruses are
cropping up with alarming regularity.
A new one called
Surnova has turned up in files for Quake 4,
Britney Spears nude, Star Wars 2 and a Gamecube
emulator, causing havoc when they're
downloaded.
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A RECENT survey has
found a totally different meaning for the term
high-tech.
According to
technology firm TongueWag, people who work in
technology are more likely to be pot smokers
than anybody else, with 92 percent of tech and
telecoms workers admitting to having tried the
weed.
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SITE OF THE
DAY
www.k1664.co.uk/guillotine
GO ON, enjoy yourself,
chop off Sophie Ellis Bexter's head. Or Liam
Gallagher's or Sian Lloyd's (we wish). All in
the name of Gallic fun, of course, and drinking
Kronenbourg.
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