Fresh from Donncha’s blog comes the news that the website from which I buy most of my music – CD-Wow is being sued by IRMA, the “Irish Recorded Music Association”, for illegally importing music CDs “without the copyright holders consent”. For those of you who don’t know, CD-Wow sells music CDs at a fraction of the price we pay in our high-street retail music stores.
In a vicious attempt to screw the Irish consumer, IRMA want to ensure that we have no other avenue than our massively over-priced music stores from which to purchase our music. Well, fuck ‘em. The Irish consumer is under attack from all avenues as our country becomes ever more expensive to live – to survive – in. I’ve written some emails to my local TDs complaining about it, hopefully it’ll help to raise awareness, though I’m not optimistic.
Next step is to get someone to call some of the Irish radio shows about this. Would that I could but I’m not staying on hold for half-an-hour from Kenya!