Fry endorses Talk Talk competition song against anti-piracy plans

It has been revealed that Stephen Fry has been using his favourite platform Twitter to endorse a song that won a Talk Talk competition and slates the government’s anti-piracy plans.

The anti-piracy plans that have been proposed by the government to try and curb anti-piracy amongst broadband users has been slated by many Internet providers, and one ISP, Talk Talk, has been particularly vocal in making its views about plans such as ‘three strikes’ measures known.

It has now emerged that a song that won a Talk Talk competition to protest against the plans that the government has proposed over illegal file sharing has been endorsed by television personality Stephen Fry, who has been speaking about the song on Twitter. The song is called Only Idiots Assume, and is written by Liam Mullone and sung by Hils Barker.

The lyrics of the song include “What good is a computer while Mandelson is pissing on your router…if you believe in proof due process and the truth, then you can believe in this, Digital Britain no longer exists”. An official from Talk Talk stated: “We wanted to tap into the outstanding creativity of the Great British public to send a clear message to the government – these laws won’t work and people don’t want them.”

Stephen Fry described the song as “a wonderful package that reminds me of the high days of my youth, when punk roamed the land and the young were angry and funny and spunky and spiky.” He added: “I’m no defender of systematic, deliberate, criminal downloading, but in my estimation, the government’s proposed ‘Three-Strike’ Copyright Protection Law is ill-conceived, constitutionally outrageous, morally unfair and epically foolish.”

Source – Brand Republic