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A new pro-piracy brigade is planning to invade the political arena, and their sole motive is to gain political power and a platform to voice their demands. The party in question is the Pirate Party, formed by a group of passionate file sharers who are pressing for creating an atmosphere where free file sharing would be allowed.

Rick Falkvinge, the founder of this party, recently addressed a large gathering in the In The City music conference in Manchester, where he received quite acidic threats, one being that he ought to be burned at the stake. Besides, one delegate accused him of being manipulative.

Yvette Livesey, the organiser of the music conference, also faced severe opposition for her decision to allow Rick Falkvinge to speak to the gathered audience. The Pirate Party has a silent supporter in Ms Yvette, because she feels that this type of debate should have started ten years earlier. She believes that the present situation is a result of a policy of not allowing healthy debate.

The Swedish Pirate Party has already demanded that copyright must be reduced from fifty to five years. According to observers, this movement has generated a lot of support in Germany and Sweden. Now the general view in the UK is that if the Pirate Party goes ahead with its plan of contesting elections and gains political power, it will surely herald bad times for the creative industry.

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Stars such as Keira Knightley, Nicole Kidman and troubled singer Amy Winehouse are being considered to play Sixties icon Dusty Springfield in a new movie. The film will feature Dusty Springfield songs and music.

The £5million film, likely to be called Dusty, is being developed by husband-and-wife producer team Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen of London-based Number 9 Films. Shooting could start late next year.

Terence Doyle, editor of British film magazine, says: “Playing Dusty would be a dream role and there is sure to be fierce competition to land the part.”

Dusty’s career got off the ground in 1963 and she had a string of hits such as I Only Want To Be With You and You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me.

Voted the Top British Female Artist in 1964, 1965, and 1968, she had a worldwide hit with Son of a Preacher Man.

Her album Dusty In Memphis has been voted one of the greatest 100 pop records of all time.

A movie insider said the film would “almost certainly” explore the “complicated private life” of the gay singer who died from breast cancer in 1999, aged 59.