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Prog Against Pirates

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Hi, the aim of this myspace is to get musicians, bands, and fans alike to stand up and be counted against the illegal downloading of music. 'File-sharing' of copywrite materaial is SERIOUSLY effecting and damaging to the bands we love, and seriously threatening it's future, if you care about music and the future of music then join this myspace, show yourself to be a friend of music, stand up for PROG AGAINST PIRATES, and look forward to a future of music.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
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My Blog

A word on Piracy by Shawn Gordon

A WORD ON PIRACYFirst off, I'm going to distinguish betweenpirated copies that are full-on duplications andalmost look like the real ones (if you see aprice that is too good to be true, it is likelyon...
Posted by Prog Against Pirates on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:22:00 PST

TORRENT SITE OWNER ARRESTED

Great news indeed!!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7057812.stm Please follow the link to the BBC news site, to read abou the torrent site owner who was arrested this week. Hopefully this wi...
Posted by Prog Against Pirates on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:24:00 PST

Words from Shawn @ www.myspace.com/progrockrecords

Thanks to Shawn for letting me reproduc this from his own myspace site www.myspace.com/progrockrecordsCheers Shawn! More of Shawn's words to come! W x   I've had the most amazing email conversa...
Posted by Prog Against Pirates on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:34:00 PST

HURRAH! to Canada!

Demonoid.com, one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers has allegedly been taken offline by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). Fantastic news! Well done to the CRIA for making such ...
Posted by Prog Against Pirates on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:12:00 PST

Note from John "Barney" Barnfield

Here is a message from Barney (ex-Pendie) originally posted on the Pendragon Forum. 18/5/7Have to agree 200% with Nick on this one. It's a very sad reflection on the culture of today where some people...
Posted by Prog Against Pirates on Fri, 18 May 2007 06:51:00 PST

From Nick Barrett (Pendragon)

Here is a copy of the post Nick Barrett made on the Pendragon forum today regarding the issue....."I thought as some insight into the effect of downloading you might be interested in the following:Wha...
Posted by Prog Against Pirates on Mon, 14 May 2007 01:48:00 PST

Words from Widge (IQ)

Here is what Widge[Martin Orford] has said about the issue on the IQ forum....   "With regard to the downloading thing, personally I'm not impressed if we have 2 million fans that download f...
Posted by Prog Against Pirates on Wed, 09 May 2007 05:58:00 PST

hmmm..... just to clear a few things up.....

What I hope to achieve with the myspace is the prickling of consciences, there are folk out there in cyberland who download or file share cd's INSTEAD of buying them. These folk roughly fall into thre...
Posted by Prog Against Pirates on Tue, 08 May 2007 12:35:00 PST

R.E.S.P.E.C.T find out what it means to me...

I am hearing a lot of folk talking about "rights". About their "right" to listen to music before they decide to buy (or not).  I believe that musicians have a right to be paid for their work. It'...
Posted by Prog Against Pirates on Sat, 05 May 2007 06:06:00 PST

May the 4th be with you!

May the 4th be with you! Thanks so much to the bands and fans who have alerady joined. People often give the "How do I know if it's any good if I don't download?" argument to justify downloading and ...
Posted by Prog Against Pirates on Fri, 04 May 2007 10:57:00 PST