“..these days, pirate radio MCs tell listeners to rack up “missed calls” if they like a song, by calling the station’s cell phone and letting it ring just once.

“It’s a good way to see if the listeners like the tune,” said Purple, a pirate radio MC. “Text messages sometimes take a long time to get to us. Sometimes a message asking for a rewind will arrive six or seven tracks down the line. A missed call is quickest.”

And nobody pays for the call.”

The young especially [coz they're skint] will always find a hack to get around paying…

Just back from Opentech, so here are a few random notes. I’ll hopefully fill in more details later. I started…