Copyright, or copy wrong?

Well break out a new criminal record for me. I realised today that to put the music clip on the CD of the Week post below, I broke copyright law.

As my computer is usually off, I uploaded an MP3 track that I had ripped from the CD (for my own personal use) to Fileden. That's not a music sharing site, as such, but if you let the music play through, you end up with the whole MP3 file in the browser cache on your hard drive.

If they come and arrest me, I'll let you know.

Elton John comes in from the cold

I hadn't willingly listened to Elton John's music for 6 years until yesterday, following his disgraceful behaviour in walking (running?) away from a concert at Casino Estoril, which I just happened to have been invited to. (That said, the dinner was superb. The escaping act would have easily been excuse enough to start a blog, if Blogger had been around at the time. I did complain on Usenet. As somebody there said at the time, "He was off like a rocket, man.")

What made me change my mind? I still think he is a horrible, selfish little man, but he has, in fact, written a huge amount of great music to accompany Bernie Taupin's wonderful lyrics. The event which reminded me was watching Moulin Rouge, which is a great film for lyrics addicts, featuring "Your Song" prominently throughout, and huge numbers of other well-known songs where only the Madonna references feel out of place to me.

So I no longer have to skip Elton's CD's when I'm deciding what to put in the car, the only place I usually get to listen to my hundreds of albums and classical discs.

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