Orwellian world.

Explain please.

Meanings

The adjective Orwellian refers to these behaviours of State and The Party, especially when the Party is the State:

* The political manipulation of language, by obfuscation, e.g. WAR IS PEACE. Using language to obfuscate meaning or to reduce and eliminate ideas and their meanings that are deemed dangerous to its authority.
* Invasion of personal privacy, either directly physically or indirectly by surveillance.
* State control of its citizens' daily life, as in a "Big Brother" society.
* Official encouragement of policies contributing to the socio-economic disintegration of the family.
* The substitution of traditional religion with the adoration of state leaders and their Party.
* The encouragement of "doublethink," whereby the population must learn to embrace inconsistent concepts without dissent, e.g. giving up liberty for freedom.
* The revision of history in the favour of the State's interpretation of it.
* A dystopian future.

F*ck them. It's just laws to keep a stupid, old, corrupt, greedy and unadapting music industry in business.

Yes, artists should get money for their music. But guess what - artists get a lot of money from gigs, the sale of merchandise.

Yes, the process of recording the music costs money, the process of getting it onto a CD and then distributing and advertising it costs money. But not that much.

In this world of digital downloads, however, how much does it really cost to get an album from one side of the earth to the other? Practically nothing. Even a CD-quality album, encoded in FLAC rather than MP3, costs a fraction of a penny to send across the globe. And they charge us £10 to download an album that isn't even a quarter of the average bitrate of FLAC.

Laws like this exist for one purpose. That is not to keep the artists going, it is to keep the record labels going. The greedy multinationals. The corporations who refuse to adapt to change.

Sharing is not wrong. Ripping people off is wrong. Exploiting artists is wrong.

...If you really want to help out an artist, go to their concert. The shares from the concert go directly to them, not some conglomerate industry that owns their songs and enslaves them to 2-6 year contracts. ...

Or you could buy the merchandise they sell on their official websites (e.g. shirts, hats etc.)

What also is funny is that they say "Music and film companies say that the illegal downloads cost them millions of pounds in lost revenues". Really? That's interesting, because I don't know how they'd be able to calculate how much money they truly lose from illegal downloading.