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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.'"
Oh come on? Troll? I expressed an opinion. Seems like the mods are a bit trigger happy today.
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'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'
He does mean the music industry as an integral part of the most creative economy?
Did the music or movie industry CREATE the internet?
Did it CREATE file-sharing protocols?
Did it manage to CREATE a solution to the piracy problem?
I see three big NOs there... Would the music industry please step forward and enlighten me as to the creativeness involved here?
So far, the most notable positive thing in the music industry in the last decade seems to have been Amy Winehouse, who the music industry did not manage to protect from her own drug problems.
But - did the music industry CREATE Amy Winehouse? Do they really want to say that the mindless shagging around of music stars in the past few decades counts as 'the industry creating new talent'?