Tory leader compares music piracy with child abuse

Tory leader David Cameron has delivered a speech to the AGM of the BPI, and seems to be telling the music industry exactly what it wants to hear.

Up to now Cameron has appeared to have taken an informed and un-Tory view of the world - noticeable on green issues - but it seems the rumours of him moving to the right in response to Gordon Brown's appointment as Prime Minister seems justified here:

"ISPs can block access and indeed close down offending file-sharing sites. They have already established the Internet Watch Foundation to monitor child abuse and incitement to racial hatred on the internet.They should be doing the same when it comes to digital piracy."

And it doesn't stop there.

"The music industry has done so much in making all manner of music from any decade available to everyone."

Is this the same music industry that managed to miss the whole internet download channel completely and hand it over to Steve Jobs??

Cameron has been badly misadvised here and this speech is going to alienate much of the younger generation that the Tories have been trying to court up till now with his "youth and vigor" approach.