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Bono Hopes Content Tracking Will Help Media Moguls
Khalid Baheyeldin writes "In his New York Times op-ed column, Irish singer Bono, otherwise noted for his humanitarian efforts expressed dismay at losses music artists incur from internet downloads. He notes that 'we know from America's noble effort to stop child pornography, not to mention China's ignoble effort to suppress online dissent, that it's perfectly possible to track content.' He then goes on to wonder 'perhaps movie moguls will succeed where musicians and their moguls have failed so far, and rally America to defend the most creative economy in the world, where music, film, TV and video games help to account for nearly 4 percent of gross domestic product.'"
This came after Bono spent hours searching for his music on torrent sites. Apparently he still hasn't found what he's looking for.
Always proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
This is his latest humanitarian project.
JoeR
Seriously. I wouldn't even waste my neighbors free bandwidth to download anything U2 has put out in over a decade...
If you steal music, these gentlemen couldn't afford to be charitable because they couldn't buy the fifth plane or sports car.
So, next time you steal music or movie, think of the children you take the food away.
Floaters are hard to flush. You usually need to anchor them down with a lot of toilet paper. And pray you don't have a water efficient toilet!
Tell him to go skiing, really fast.
Table-ized A.I.
how about he does a fundraiser with Metallica to save the artists in need!
Hey. I watched Letterman last night and Robin Williams was being interviewed. He told a story about this floater that he was brought back down to earth in Scotland. Basically Bono started clapping and during the clapping he said "Every time I clap another whale dies". From the back of the auditorium came "Well then, fucking stop clapping!".
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
The problem is that U2's music is being pirated a lot. With every GNU/Linux distribution you download, you are also downloading all of U2's MP3s.
To listen to them, just do cat /proc/kcore > /dev/dsp. The sound it makes is virtually identical to bono's inconsolable screaming.
I'm sure he can sue us all and demand we pay $ 699 for each GNU/Linux install. Do we have a new SCO in town?
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
Don't forget that he is equating downloading and listening to a U2 album with child pornography. One is a horrible abuse that I wouldn't wish on any child, and the other is child pornography. (sorry. poor taste). Bono is despicable, greedy douchebag for invoking child porn in order to fatten his wallet.
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Sometimes that command can result in some interesting sounds though. Bono never does.
SSC
Last time I heard, free beer tends to enable free speech.
Sometimes the free speech is a little more free than the speaker had hoped, but they certainly let it loose.
As a (former) politician, it turns out that free beer is one of the few ways to genuinely earn votes as well. Getting a brewery to support your political cause is a guaranteed way to win.
Another corollary:
Give a man a fish today, and tomorrow he demands, "Where's my fuckin' fish??"
Meanwhile, his nets rot on the beach.
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
cull the population down to a more manageable size. Now there's a solution that's not been tried before!
Sounds like a pretty modest proposal to me. I wonder why people in Ireland haven't thought of it before.
The only reason you have "free" stuff to download is because people like me are paying for it and in turn subsidizing your habit.
When people like me disappear, there will be no media of any kind for people like you to download.
Period.
Spoken like someone who has never been starving.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
b-b-b-but with encryption, how will we keep the internet secure?? If I can't monitor every single packet moving through a node, how will I know if someone's attacking/?!!?!?
I know! Just the other day I saw a small child on the news in Dafur, starving. I immediately thought to myself "You little fucker, competing for valuable oxygen!"
All the community, all the good works, but without [...] any involvement with volcanoes.
Why do you hate xenu so much? :(
How unerringly true. Might I suggest that we take a new approach to the problem? Perhaps we can put our efforts toward removing the stigma attached to cannabalism. It seems to me that this could only result in a positive outcome for all parties involved. The hungry would be either fed or eaten and we would no longer have to be annoyed by Bono's calls for help.