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U2's Manager Calls For Mandatory Disconnects For Music Downloaders
sleeplesseye writes "In a speech at the Midem music industry convention in Cannes, Paul McGuinness, longtime manager of the band U2, has called on Internet service providers to immediately introduce mandatory French-style service disconnections to end music downloading, and has urged governments to force ISPs to adopt such policies. McGuinness criticized Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' pay-what-you-want business model, saying that 'the majority of downloads were through illegal P2P download services like BitTorrent and LimeWire'. He also accused ISPs, telcos, device makers, and numerous specifically named companies such as Apple, Google, Yahoo!, Oracle, and Facebook of building 'multi billion dollar industries on the back of our content without paying for it', and of being 'makers of burglary kits' who have made 'a thieves' charter' to steal money from the music industry. The full text of his speech has been posted on U2's website."
Sorry Linux users! You can still buy by the track!
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Then I'll download elsewhere. Kazaa and Morpheus offer reasonable prices on downloads
The recording industry is run by idiots.
-mcgrew
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mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
They're nothin' but a bunch of slack-jawed faggots anyway. Seriously though, why would they think it's the internet that's responsible for their declining record sales? They should have quit twenty years ago.
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