{"id":174,"date":"2009-09-10T22:35:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T22:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=174"},"modified":"2010-08-17T20:58:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:58:43","slug":"nick-mason-speaks-out-against-file-sharing-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2009\/09\/nick-mason-speaks-out-against-file-sharing-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Mason speaks out against file sharing penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd drummer <strong>Nick Mason<\/strong> (left) is one of many professional musicians lending a voice to the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC), a group encouraging the British government to rethink its stance toward illegal file sharers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last thing we want to be doing  is going to war with our fanbase. File sharing means a new generation of  fans for us,&#8221; Mason said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great thing to have another generation discovering your music and  thinking you&#8217;re rather good. File sharing plays a part in that, because that  generation don&#8217;t do it any other way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His comments are a reaction to British Business Secretary <strong>Lord Mandelson<\/strong>&#8216;s plan to suspend the Internet accounts of those caught sharing digital music files.<\/p>\n<p>FAC has drafted a resolution that calls on the government to innovate new business models that help fans obtain music legally.<\/p>\n<p>That plan has received backing by the British Academy of  Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and the Music Producers&#8217; Guild.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pictured, from left: Mason and other FAC members \u2014 <strong>Ed O&#8217;Brien<\/strong> (Radiohead), <strong>Dave Rowntree<\/strong> (Blur) and <strong>Billy Bragg<\/strong>. (David Bebber\/The Times)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason (left) is one of many professional musicians lending a voice to the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC), a group encouraging the British government to rethink its stance toward illegal file sharers. &#8220;The last thing we want to be doing is going to war with our fanbase. File sharing means a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-nick-mason","category-personnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}