Bias Fx 2 Pirate

[Zareen Zapata]

Thebias towards male artists is an ongoing issue throughout the music industry. Instagram accounts such as womenallergyclub and lineupswithoutmales have emerged visualising this, expressing their tiredness at seeing lineups announced with very few (or token) female performers.

In this climate, the women who do get booked also face bias every step of the way. So much so, that in a recent survey carried out by Pirate, 98% of female respondents said they had suffered performance anxiety, making them 28% more likely to experience this than their male counterparts. Moreover, many identified their gender as a specific cause.

For female performers, being a gender minority in event spaces is exacerbated by all the other common causes of anxiety identified by the survey. One live artist pointed out how difficult it can be to get on stage when you're not presenting as "a cis white straight man":

"Being on stage is very exposing and a very vulnerable place to be, especially if you are atypical in any way (and for live musicians, this can simply be not presenting being a cis white straight man).

Respondents went on to offer ideas around how the music industry might change in order to better support artists with performance anxiety, many of which revolved around diversity, space and drug/alcohol protocols.

Another answer that kept coming up, when respondents were asked what promoters and venues can do to alleviate performance anxiety, was to ensure there was a nice green room, quiet room or dressing room where artists could relax before and after their set:

The Irene incident of 1927 was a significant event of the British anti-piracy operations in China during the first half of the 20th century. In an attempt to surprise the pirates of Bias Bay, about sixty miles from Hong Kong, Royal Navy submarines attacked the merchant ship SS Irene, of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, which had been taken over by the pirates on the night of 19 October. The British were successful in thwarting the hijacking though they sank the ship.[1][2]

Following the end of the age of sail, the pirates of southern China were forced to change their tactics when it came to taking over merchant ships. New steam-powered vessels, used both by the navies and the merchants, rendered fleets of heavily armed sailing junks useless. By 1927, the long history of piracy in China continued and the pirates themselves had perfected the tactic of boarding a merchant vessel as passengers and then taking it over while at sea. Some of the most successful groups of pirates at the time were based in Bias Bay; there the outlaws would hijack a vessel as close to the bay as possible before taking it in and anchoring it close to shore for the offloading of everything valuable, including hostages. On more than one occasion, when British warships were sent into the area, the pirates would have been warned ahead and thus escaped arrest. So the Royal Navy created a plan to stealthily patrol the area with submarines. The British fleet at Hong Kong included twelve submarines, so they assigned the L-class boats HMS L4, under Lieutenant Frederick John Crosby Halahan, and HMS L5 to the operation in October 1927. The two submarines left under everybody's assumption that routine exercises were to take place, though they were actually sailing for the bay.[3]

When the two submarines arrived they were off Mendoza Island (now Shenggao Island) at the entrance of the bay. The two then split up. L4 went to patrol around the entrance of the bay and Halahan ordered L5 to patrol within. Bias Bay is surrounded by rocks and that night there was a fleet of fishing junks sheltering inside and constantly moving around the anchorage. Both the rocks and the junks made it difficult for the British to monitor the area without being detected, though they succeeded in doing so, and on the morning of 20 October they encountered Irene steaming off Cake Island. She had been taken over by at least eighteen pirates armed with automatic pistols. It was still dark so L4 was surface cruising with one crew at the 4-inch (102 mm) gun and another at the vessel's searchlight. Lieutenant Halahan knew that torpedoes were not helpful in recapturing a pirate-held ship but he did have a 4-inch deck gun. Then Irene was spotted so Halahan maneuvered his submarine into position for firing, and when the order was given, the search light was turned on and the gun crew fired a blank warning shot at the steamer. When the shot was ignored a second, live round was fired and it blew a hole straight through the ship and killed a pirate who was standing on deck.[4]

The pirates still paid no attention and continued their attempt to make it to shore, so the 4-inch gun was opened up on them again. By this time L5 had arrived in the area and her crew counted eight muzzle flashes from L4's deck gun. Lieutenant Gilbert Hackforth Jones reported that they were too far away at that time to open fire themselves, but they could see Irene burning after being struck by multiple rounds. At that point Lieutenant Halahan signaled L5 that lifeboats were being lowered from the steamer and that he was maneuvering in to rescue the survivors. L5 followed suit and both submarines dispatched a boat with one officer and one sailor each to go aboard the burning Irene. The pirates on board were counting on this and they were waiting for the British to move in close before responding, and when they did, the pirates revealed themselves from their hiding places and opened fire. Their shots were inaccurate, though, and went over the heads of the sailors. The submarines then turned around so they could open fire again with their deck guns. After a few additional shots, one struck something flammable on board the steamer and a large, "blinding" explosion was observed. Following that the pirates offered no more resistance and abandoned ship, some of them drowning in the cold water.[1][5]

Irene was then burning well so additional vessels were sent for. Most of Irene's 258 passengers were saved though fourteen were never seen again. All the survivors were taken on board the submarines and later transferred to the Admiralty S-class destroyer HMS Stormcloud, the cruiser HMS Delhi and the minesweeper HMS Magnolia, which also assisted in putting out the fire on the ship. The British put out the fire but because they had sprayed so much water into the vessel she eventually capsized and sank the following day. Several men received decorations for their conduct in rescuing survivors, including Lieutenant Halahan who received the Distinguished Service Cross.[6] The Hong Kong police managed to filter out several of the pirates who tried to blend in with their hostages during the rescue and seven more were taken by L5. Jones said that they found the pirates naked in a lifeboat and crying so they were assumed to be civilians and taken aboard in blankets. It was a few days later when the crew of L5 were informed that the seven men they picked up were responsible for the hijacking.[7]

In the end, seventeen Chinese were found guilty of piracy and hanged for it in Hong Kong, though some sources say only ten pirates were executed.[2] The owners of Irene later tried to sue Lieutenant Halahan but he won the case on the grounds that any naval commander has the authority to sink any ship controlled by pirates. Irene remained partly underwater for some time, with her masts sticking out, but she was later salvaged and returned to duty.[8]

Days faded into weeks, and the momentum trickledaway, interrupted by life and responsibilities. Equally, there was consistencyin the pragmatic concerns of my new pirate crew of rushing in to take onestablishment or issue. Sam, I note, was stillingwaiting patiently in the wings for his recall back to Swansea, to partake insaid rebellion. I felt disappointed, with myself.

A Swedish judge who found four men guilty of promoting copyright infringement by running filesharing site The Pirate Bay may have been biased and a retrial may be ordered, legal experts said Thursday.

"The trial may have to be redone. But in such case the lawyers have to request this immediately," one of Sweden's most high-profile defence lawyers, Leif Silbersky, told public broadcaster Swedish Radio.

His comments came after the radio station revealed one of the judges in the case, Tomas Norstroem, belongs to several copyright protection associations where film and record industry officials are also members.

On April 17, Stockholm's district court sentenced Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstroem each to a year in jail and ordered them to pay damages of 30 million kronor (2.72 million euros, 3.56 million dollars) to the movie and recording industry.

Norstroem is a member of the Swedish Copyright Association, as are Monique Wadsted, who represented the film and recording industry in the trial, and the head of the Swedish Anti-Piracy Agency, Henrik Ponten.

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From bloggers who share content on their pages without the authorization from the copyright holder to major international piracy networks, the estimated losses for the Brazilian audiovisual chain are approximately R$ 10 billion annually, according to information from a comparative study carried out by ABTA (Brazilian Pay-TV Association) based on the crossing of data from Anatel and Pnad, for the year 2018.

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