{"id":10,"date":"2010-05-20T16:13:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T16:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ratpie.org\/?p=4"},"modified":"2010-05-20T16:13:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T16:13:06","slug":"a-new-era-for-the-music-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ratpie.org\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"A New Era for the Music Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.greedbag.com\/ratpie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/05\/latex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6\" title=\"latex\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.greedbag.com\/ratpie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/05\/latex.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a>The UK music industry is going to have to get used to being regulated. It has no-one but itself to blame for this, having lobbied hard to get ISPs forced by Government into some kind of anti-infringement process.<\/p>\n<p>Music is a small industry. The people are known to each other, and while many would say it is over-lawyered the contracts it works on are more like a social security system than a mechanistic reflection of the handshake deals that drive the business.<\/p>\n<p>I happen to think this a good thing. At its best the music industry creates sheer magic out of common and everyday stuff through the agency of what can best be described as a troupe of levitating priests. It does not bear rational enquiry and scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>But part of the deal in asking for intervention from Government is that music will have to undergo a regular strip search and intimate examination. Ofcom is gearing up to perform <a href=\"http:\/\/stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk\/consultations\/copyright-infringement\/\">its obligations under the Digital Economy Act<\/a> and you can almost hear the latex gloves being snapped on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK music industry is going to have to get used to being regulated. It has no-one but itself to blame for this, having lobbied hard to get ISPs forced by Government into some kind of anti-infringement process. Music is a small industry. The people are known to each other, and while many would say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,19],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulation","tag-dea","tag-ofcom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratpie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratpie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratpie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratpie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratpie.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ratpie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratpie.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratpie.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratpie.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}