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Billy Bragg: Why should songwriters starve so others get rich?
Singing for the VC Supper
Part One
- Big Business and the Start-Ups and The Punters... (3:30)
- Leave the bloggers alone (8:30)
- There's no point Web 2.0 people looking the other way...(10:00)
- So why can't musicians shut up and just play live? (11:25)
“Without recordings to go ahead of you, and spread the word, you end up never getting to that stage that all of us crave: where we give up our fucking day jobs that we fucking hate”
Part Two
- Technology leaps ahead - but why give up your rights? (2:00) Equity stakes in 2.0 startups? (3:08)
- Home Taping Didn't Kill Music (5:15)
- Imeem FAIL rescued by music (8:00)
- Webtards - don't look the other way (9:42)
- Towards a free music membership nonprofit?
Billy Bragg's website, with his blog, forum and songs, is at BillyBragg.co.uk. ®