Penned by musician Dan Bull and commissioned by TalkTalk, the clip dubbed Home Taping is Killing Music takes its inspiration from the famous 1980s anti-copyright infringement campaign by the British Phonographic Industry. And to accompany the song, there’s a video that was apparently the work of a former Top of the Pops producer, who for reasons that are wholly understandable has remained anonymous.

Of course, home taping did nothing of the sort. In fact, that decade was defined by megastars like Prince, Madonna and Michael Jackson whose unit-shifting capabilities were second to none. Certainly, home taping doesn’t appear to have stopped Jacko’s Thriller from notching up 47 million sales and becoming the biggest selling album of all time.

According to Dan, rather than focus its energies on criminalizing you and I, the record industry ought to be directing its resources at coming up with an alternative sales model that’s both sustainable and attractive to young music fans.

He says: “As a musician, I’m against the Government’s filesharing proposals as they would misguidedly hurt music fans. Disconnecting thousands of users suspected of filesharing wouldn’t suddenly mean that people would go out there and buy more music.

“The internet has fundamentally changed the way we listen to tunes, watch films and so on, so we actually need to think of new ways of how we make a living out our creative efforts.”

Dan makes a good case. And you’ll be able to see his fellow musician the Bard of Barking Billy Bragg expound on why disconnecting file-sharers is a non-starter even more eloquently tonight on Panorama at 8.30 and on the iPlayer shortly afterwards.

Unfortunately we’re predicting that heed him the Whitehall aparatchiks will not. Not as long as music industry big wigs like David Geffen have the ear of Peter Mandelson and Lord Timms over drinks and dinners at glittering Corfu parties anyway...