Live8, non riesco proprio a entusiasmarmi

…ai miliardari che offrono le loro canzoncine contro la povertà. Mi sento molto vicino a quanto dice Albard dei Blur alla BBC (via MassiTwoSteps)

Performers should also be charged for taking part because they will receive so much free publicity, he told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme. [...]
Albarn also said there should be “some kind of tariff” on record companies. “All the artists that play there will enjoy increased record sales – if they play a good gig, they will benefit from it,” the singer said. Artists should put pressure on their record labels to “genuinely show this is an altruistic act and that there is no self-gain in it”.

Quando poi nello stesso giorno leggo questa notizia…

“Mother faces music for girl’s illegal downloads
A teenager’s penchant for the bands Coldplay and Oasis left her mother contemplating prison yesterday.
Sylvia Price has received a demand for GBP 4,000 in compensation by solicitors acting for the music industry after her daughter, Emily, was caught illegally downloading songs by her favourite artists.
Mrs Price, a self-confessed computer illiterate, said: ‘I don’t know where I’m going to get the money from. I’ll have to go to prison because I haven’t got that kind of money.’” The Guardian

…ecco, magari sono io che non capisco, magari sono qualunquista, magari si dovrebbe approfondire, magari la mammina inglese non rischia veramente la prigione, ma c’è qualcosa di indefinibile in tutto questo che mi rende diffidente e indifferente.

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