machine-envy

When I was a kid, I used to think working in the music industry would be, like, the coolest thing ever. In my early twenties, I started doing music writing, and started having my doubts. Then, as a tech journalist, I started meeting people from the BPI and I knew the mirror had cracked.

At twelve, this kid is never going to have that experience. She already knows the industry sucks. That’s why she flash-mobbed BPI headquarters on Tuesday, after they took her single off the fledgling “kiddie-chart”. The BPI’s logic? Her single was released on Flowerburger records, a label currently petitioning the BPI to stop suing filesharers. From The Inquirer:

“12 year-old singer-songwriter Amy Thomas staged a protest outside the headquarters of the British music industry yesterday, following a decision to ban her from a new school kids’ music chart because of her views on downloading.”

Read the rest here. (via Techdirt)