Saw someone say that Lostprophets were available to listen to again on Spotify. This was kind of astonishing, cos if you know that band’s history (and their Wiki page will unfortunately tell you everything if you don’t), then you know there’s a good reason why, after a certain event, HMV refused to sell their albums any more and the BBC banned them from broadcast, and, frankly, Spotify removed them too. Whether or not that was a moral decision on their part, though, is something I can’t quite work out; this seems to suggest it was actually a licensing issue rather than “ew, worst pedophile since Jim’ll Fuck It, why would we want him on our service”… whatever the case, they’re evidently OK with him now for some reason; apparently the Lostprophets stuff has been back up for a few months, this is just me finding out now.
It’s a vexing issue, cos you can argue the rest of the band shouldn’t miss out on being able to make money from their work, they’re entitled to that, but how do you let them do that without Watkins being rewarded? Cos he’s still entitled to his share even though he technically can’t earn any money while he’s in jail… and though he will be there for hopefully a good long time, what happens when he gets out? Does it all accrue in an account somewhere until he does, whereupon he gets a lump sum or something? I don’t know. I just kind of dislike the idea that they’re available again and Spotify is evidently OK with platforming this pedophile (mind you, Gary Glitter’s still on there too, so). Not exactly what the world needed now…
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