I hope not Valerie, as EMI are already mentioning #sopaireland and Anonymous in the same sentences as a way of smearing the campaign. Good old fashioned FUD from them.
I’m afraid you’ve got it slightly wrong here. Because this was a topical debate, only the TDs who spoke were given time. Any other TD, like Eoghan Murphy, weren’t facilitated. So, there was no point to them being there, and by being there they would be taking time away from working on legislation in their offices. So, an empty chamber here isn’t a bad thing.
The problem here isn’t lazy TDs, it’s a Government who would only facilitate a ten minute debate. Direct your ire there.
Hi Rory, I was aware of the time limits but that’s not really the point.
45,000~ people signed a petition. Most of them are internet savvy. Many of them watched the live stream.
Any TD with even the slightest hint of PR-savviness should have been there for reasons of optics. It doesn’t matter if it was all spoof, it would have worked incredibly well as a PR exercise.
The fact that FF didn’t show up en-masse with bums on seats, shows just how badly they have lost their populist touch.
“Working legislation in their offices” or coming up with ways of shutting down Irish online wine shops so they keep their publican buddies on side? I bet if there was a 4 min Q&A on lowering the drink driving limit, we’d have seen a few more of them there.
And again, just focusing on PR (of the spin kind), Seán Sherlock could make his life a _lot_ easier if he’d just move to Primary Legislation. The #sopaireland campaign is not going to give up. His political career may stall very badly over this. He is starting to look toxic.
Shouldn’t we be starting a boycott of all EMI artists by now?
I mean It’s been all one way traffic in Ireland from EMI suits and I think it’s about bloody time they took some incoming flak from us law abiding, music paying, credit card wielding EMI customers! You sell other peoples music Willie, not laws!
So how about we kickoff an Irish EMI boycott from Feb 1st and try to snowball it globally?
It’ll have to be all of UMG if you really want to go the whole hog on it.
I’d prefer to see all Irish artists moving to a Louis CK model selling direct. Or even where they get 70% and iTunes or Amazon gets 30%.
Then, if we buy all of our non-Irish media digitally from Amazon in the US, EMI Ireland will be dis-intermediated even more quickly than they already are.
I did notice an interesting but utterly doomed campaign for everyone globally to stop buying music in February and not to illegally download either.
The scary thing is that we’ll probably have to wait until EMI gets an injunction forcing the blocking of a legal site due to some trumped-up IP infringement before any real change will happen. of course, when that happens, that’ll be the end of Seán Sherlock’s political career.
i’m SO pissed off about all of this..
hopefully now anonymous will stir up a storm..
I hope not Valerie, as EMI are already mentioning #sopaireland and Anonymous in the same sentences as a way of smearing the campaign. Good old fashioned FUD from them.
I’m afraid you’ve got it slightly wrong here. Because this was a topical debate, only the TDs who spoke were given time. Any other TD, like Eoghan Murphy, weren’t facilitated. So, there was no point to them being there, and by being there they would be taking time away from working on legislation in their offices. So, an empty chamber here isn’t a bad thing.
The problem here isn’t lazy TDs, it’s a Government who would only facilitate a ten minute debate. Direct your ire there.
I can see my taxes and charges going to good use here, sickening it is.
Hi Rory, I was aware of the time limits but that’s not really the point.
45,000~ people signed a petition. Most of them are internet savvy. Many of them watched the live stream.
Any TD with even the slightest hint of PR-savviness should have been there for reasons of optics. It doesn’t matter if it was all spoof, it would have worked incredibly well as a PR exercise.
The fact that FF didn’t show up en-masse with bums on seats, shows just how badly they have lost their populist touch.
“Working legislation in their offices” or coming up with ways of shutting down Irish online wine shops so they keep their publican buddies on side? I bet if there was a 4 min Q&A on lowering the drink driving limit, we’d have seen a few more of them there.
And again, just focusing on PR (of the spin kind), Seán Sherlock could make his life a _lot_ easier if he’d just move to Primary Legislation. The #sopaireland campaign is not going to give up. His political career may stall very badly over this. He is starting to look toxic.
Shouldn’t we be starting a boycott of all EMI artists by now?
I mean It’s been all one way traffic in Ireland from EMI suits and I think it’s about bloody time they took some incoming flak from us law abiding, music paying, credit card wielding EMI customers! You sell other peoples music Willie, not laws!
So how about we kickoff an Irish EMI boycott from Feb 1st and try to snowball it globally?
It’ll have to be all of UMG if you really want to go the whole hog on it.
I’d prefer to see all Irish artists moving to a Louis CK model selling direct. Or even where they get 70% and iTunes or Amazon gets 30%.
Then, if we buy all of our non-Irish media digitally from Amazon in the US, EMI Ireland will be dis-intermediated even more quickly than they already are.
I did notice an interesting but utterly doomed campaign for everyone globally to stop buying music in February and not to illegally download either.
The scary thing is that we’ll probably have to wait until EMI gets an injunction forcing the blocking of a legal site due to some trumped-up IP infringement before any real change will happen. of course, when that happens, that’ll be the end of Seán Sherlock’s political career.
Strangely, I suddenly had The Life of David Gale pop into my head. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_David_Gale