Episode 5: MISTY Awards, Piracy, Interview with Seize the Day

Its the first ever MISTY Awards! The satirical 'Oscars' for the Independent Media Activist Community here in Britain. Boy, do we have a great show this week! First off, find out how 'The Creative Media & Business Alliance' are trying to get access to your private internet data via the backdoor in the European Parliament by including 'Internet Download Piracy' through anti-terrorist legislation! Yes, Sony BMG, Disney and EMI are behind some hardfaced lobbying to criminalise millions of people who are downloading music and video from the internet.... Then its off to the MISTY's (www.undercurrents.org ) with exclusive interviews with Elvis and Seize the Day! That's right, Elvis was seen at the MISTY Awards at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea, Wales and The Pod Report gets to 'make history' by interviewing Elvis with show host Andy Parnell dressed as a Tiger! Then long time Political Activists and veterans of the Newbury Bypass protest in Britain and top hit Political Musicians have their say on why mainstream media awards are a mockery to global justice. To find out more about Seize the Day go to www.seizetheday.org and you too can do the Shackle Shuffle... Featured artist Adrina Thorpe (www.adrinathorpe.com ) gets to sing 'sorry' in honour of Aussie Prime Minister John Howard...all this on The Pod Report 05! November 2005