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Bono Wants Governments to Monitor Web Traffic for Piracy
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by Truemorist | January 4, 2010 at 02:11 pm
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Bono thinks that your government should be more like that of China, and police web traffic for anything that infringes copywrite. I think Bono's been listening to Paul McGuinness, and some of the silliness rubbed off, mixing in with the pre-existing silliness.
The immutable laws of bandwidth tell us we’re just a few years away from being able to download an entire season of “24” in 24 seconds. Many will expect to get it free.
The immutable laws of bandwidth, huh? Do these laws govern the series of tubes? Also, I most certainly hope that Bono isn't suggesting that the MPAA's Quixotic anti-piracy crusade has been successful.
BoingBoing's Cory Doctorow puts it best, methinks, but "enemy of humanity" perhaps goes too far. You decide:
Bono calls on world's govts to emulate totalitarian states in censoring/surveilling the net to safeguard his royalties #enemyofhumanity
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at 15:02 on January 4th, 2010
I figure Bono is pretty ignorant of economics and business so I'll spare the nastiness. But he needs some simple instruction about work and values:
Bono, millions of people have to go to work everyday. They don't have the privilege of being able to simply fax in yesterday's work and get a full day's pay for it. OK. selling CD's of your work isn't illegal for you. But morally? Charging over and over for the same day's work 20 years ago? Sure talented people need rewarding. But don't you ever think it's slightly out of kilter for a singer of a handful of songs to earn 50,000x more than the skilled engineer who builds the planes you fly on? And then expect our sympathy by screaming "More! (money)".
The extreme system of CD royalties somehow got rammed down people's throats as being OK. It was very nice of the customer's not to point out your industry is effectively a scam. They don't begrdudge you the fact that if you're a bit short, you can roll up to the "office" any day an actually do some work and you'll get paid millions for it. That's be a nice enough dream for anyone and is a reward for your talent.
No -one's suggesting they try and crash your concert for free. But I don't care what law the massive music industry lobbied the governments for 50 years about. I just find your fury at some wage slave daring to listen to your old, historical work effort going a bit against your idea of letting the cry of freedom ring out, or (whatever your mantra this week is. )
If you want to discuss it, Bono, you'll find us all at work... earning our rent and board all over again like we all did the day before.... And get some new spectacles. You're looking like a comedic parody of yourself.
at 15:32 on January 4th, 2010
hidflect you have said it, don't think I've got anything to add! The last U2 concert was freely available on the web, that impressed me, but this?
at 15:54 on January 8th, 2010
China don't police webtraffic. They made some changes into rules for domen registration.