Musicians protest about plans to punish file sharers
Found on The Guardian on Thursday, 03 September 2009
Thousands of music videos pulled from YouTube in a royalties dispute will go back online after peace broke out today between the website and the music industry.
A rift has opened between music's creators and its record labels, with a broad alliance of musicians, songwriters and producers fiercely criticising the business secretary Lord Mandelson's plans to cut off the broadband connections of internet users who illegally download music.
But they did all that for the musicians. Could they have *gasp* lied?