Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-11-2011

• Lester Bangs' Basement. By Bill Wyman - Slate Magazine
  What it means to have all music instantly available.
  (tags: music copyright culture interesting internet)
• Digital downloads: Hollywood is about to repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the music industry. - By Bill Wyman - Slate Magazine
  The trouble facing the movie industry right now is the same one the music industry had to confront 10 years ago: The easiest and most convenient way to see the movies or TV shows you want is to get them illegally.
  (tags: music piracy movies copyright interesting intellectualproperty internet)
• How Harry Potter Became the Boy Who Lived Forever - TIME
  Interesting (and reasonable; not the usual attacks) look at fanfiction, concentrating on, but not only about, Harry Potter
  (tags: interesting meta copyright fiction geeky harrypotter)
• BBC News - Opera by Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall cancelled over gay reference
  (tags: lgbt homophobia children education fairness discrimination)
• 130 police officers broke rules to view files on Steven Gerrard's trial - Telegraph
  The failed criminal prosecution of England footballer Steven Gerrard provoked so much interest among police officers that 130 of them breached data protection laws to view his file, it has emerged. And if it's that easy to access it, then I bet the newspapers have been bribing for that information too…
  (tags: corruption police law important interesting peoplesuck dude... crime)