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Bono Has an Idea: Tighter Download Controls for the Next Ten Years
For reasons we'll never totally understand, whenever Bono talks, people listen. Now, apparently bored with AIDS and world hunger, the Irish singer/humanitarian/know-it-all has turned his attention to another of the world's problems: illegal downloading.
In an op-ed piece for the New York Times, Bono tells the world how critical it is to better protect intellectual property online -- part of his "10 ideas that might make the next 10 years more interesting, healthy or civil." Arguing that the movie and TV industries should draw important lessons from the collective plight of musicians, Bono warns us all that "the immutable laws of bandwidth" would indicate that we're just a few years away from the days when entire movies are available in just seconds. Illegal file-sharing of any scale, preaches Bono, only hurts "the creators -- in this case, the young, fledgling songwriters who can't live off ticket and T-shirt sales like the least sympathetic among us."
We appreciate where Bono's coming from, and the fact that he's not doing it with the same kind of abrasive tone that Metallica's Lars Ulrich assumed during his Napster assault so many moons ago. And as circuitous and disjointed as some of Bono's past op-eds have been, we have to admit that he's probably pretty right about this one. It's just that his words would go down a whole lot smoother if they weren't coming from behind those freaking shades. Seriously, dude. [From: New York Times, via: AFP/Yahoo!News]
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Subscribe to commentsOomuJan 4th 2010 10:28AM
he is wrong.
it does not matter
tools and technology are made to improve people's life and it will be used
content creators, young people and enterprise will do just fine, adjusting to the new world and possibilities.
they will learn to sell me GAZILLIONS of new services and new products with the Magic Internet and I will learn to not spend all my money by a simple clic.
the future is not death
U2 will live
young people will always be born
Young will become Old and new young will trash the olds of their time.
and one day, ubiquity technology will totally destroy internet and will spread fear among the old of that time.
it will be the same.
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Movie makers are not afraid like musician. why? because never movies was available on a nice digital plate with NO protection AT ALL (you can forget the short-time lived video cd)
the law can be used here to stop all ripping.
and blueray are a lot more protected than dvd.
but in the long, it will NOT matter
because the future is total digital, it's download, it's streaming, it's online, on the net, on the cloud, No more only in tiny box
the genie is out the bottle, and NO, he will not go again in the bottle.
you have to become China, a totalitarian government to try to kill the genie
People have the tool, the copy machine IN THEIR home ! Soon in their pocket !
You have to destroy the copy machine and honestly, sincerely , noone sane and loving freedom want to do that.
You cannot agree with Bono, it's an old and tired debate.
mayabelle1107Jan 4th 2010 11:26AM
What an 80 Couric piece of dung.... He wants more restrictions on the rest of the world so he can increase his $300,000,000 empire. Quit writing the same song over and over and maybe your CD sales will increase, you number two.
MyKisaJan 4th 2010 12:44PM
...now isn`t he special.......