[punknews.org] Mick Jones' Carbon Silicon encourages music sharing

July 19, 2005, 05:30 PM

<a href="http://www.carbonsiliconinc.com/">Carbon Silicon</a> which features Clash and Generation X alumni Mick Jones and Tony James respectively, have recently provoked discussion with their open music sharing policy. According to <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4683875.stm">the BBC report</a>, the band is currently making all recordings available freely online and actively encourages bootlegging and filming of their performances. In fact, the band has criticized the "<i>waves of litigation</i> surrounding music sharing in their track, "Gangs Of England."
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James explained that: <blockquote>
What we're talking about here is fans who are sharing music. It's just like you did when you were young, when you made a cassette of your favourite tracks you'd love, and would give it to a friend and say 'listen to this.' Everyone's going to say, 'hang on - if they've got it already, why are they going to buy the record?' But what we find is actually, people really like buying the records.
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Some material from the band can be found on <a href="http://www.carbonsiliconinc.com/discography/discography.aspx">their discography page</a> as well as authorized fan site, <a href="http://carbonsilicon.info/">carbonsilicon.info</a> which features a <a href="http://carbonsilicon.info/forum/viewforum.php?f=7">forum devoted</a> to easy downloading of the material.


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