Glasvegas

Nope. Don't get them. At all. I think it's something to do with their drummer. She frustrates me.

Anyway...

The digital world is up in arms. Viacom have insisted that Google release details of every one who has ever used You Tube and what they have watched. Even though the American courts have ruled that the data and IP addresses are to be made anonymous, it is a whopping infringement of privacy.

Surely that by being in possession of my viewing habits (anonymous or not), Viacom are in breach of my personal copyright. I did not give them consent to have my data, yet they are free to trade it among their employees, who in turn could share it with their peers, who can then transfer it to their peers...hmm...peer to peer. Isn't that what the whole fracas is about (in a manner of speaking)?

I am fortunate enough to earn enough that if I want a song, I can pay the 89p and download it. There are those who aren't in my position. Hell, ten years ago I couldn't have afforded to download anything.

The free sharing of music, films and games is not going to destroy the industry. Over-paid, over-hyped, mass marketed dross will do that with or without file sharers. Something that seems lost on the moguls who insist on ramming repetitive, meaningless, forgettable songs down my ears while I am forced to watch a remake of a film from two decades ago because Hollywood has lost its originality.

Perhaps when the powers that be decide to stop catering to the lowest common denominator there might be a reason for folks to pay for a product that is (shock! horror!) actually worth paying for.