Waiting For The Great Leap Forward
Billy Bragg with his anthem song updated for a new generation
which is fitting as according to the CBC he
appeared at a news conference in Ottawa Friday to advocate for copyright reform and a new approach to music downloads. He was in town to give a concert at the Bronson Centre and also sang for striking workers on the picket line outside the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Que.
Bragg was joined at the news conference by Safwan Javad of the Canadian blues band Wide Mouth Mason, NDP Heritage critic Charlie Angus and representatives of the Canadian Association of Songwriters.
“The Wii is not going back in the box,” Bragg told reporters, lamenting that young people these days save up for the popular Wii video game rather than for albums.
“Technology is moving forward, and we’ve got to go forward with it.”
Bragg and a host of other artists in Europe and across Canada would like to see new ways develop of paying performers for music available online while still protecting downloaders who are sharing the product.
Those of you old enough to remember the days of Mao Zedong will be familiar with the phrase The Great Leap Forward, which was anything but as the result was the starvation death of many millions of Chinese followed shortly thereafter by The Cultural Revolution, which killed a lot more, again the product of Mao’s insanity and paranoia.
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