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Pirates: radio's secret weapon.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
Re: the letter from Daniel Owen in Music Week (6.12.03)
The overwhelming soullessness of Mr Owen's diatribe against pirate radio made me pissed off enough to write in.
"Pirate radio doesn't enhance audience choice ... it restricts choice." Bollocks. If people are passionate enough about music to risk getting prosecuted by setting up their own station, it's because mainstream radio doesn't offer any outlet for their passion.
Instead of moaning about how pirates deny copyright royalties to record companies, he should look at how they tie together local communities and ...
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