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Bono calls for control over Internet downloads
AFP ^ | Jan 2, 2009 | Unknown

Posted on 01/03/2010 5:58:33 AM PST by decimon

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Irish rock star Bono called Sunday for tougher controls over the spread of intellectual property over the Internet, arguing that file swiping and sharing hurt creators of cultural products.

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"A decade?s worth of music file-sharing and swiping has made clear that the people it hurts are 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," Bono noted.

The singer pointed out that the US effort to stop child pornography and China?s effort to suppress online dissent indicate that it is "perfectly possible to track" Internet content.

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Starting out, you want the world wide open to you. No rules.

Once established, you want your world closed to competition. Rules rule.

1 posted on 01/03/2010 5:58:34 AM PST by decimon
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To: decimon

Typical celebrity marxist: they want free sharing of everything and forced government charity; but when it starts to cut into their income, it’s suddenly wrong.


2 posted on 01/03/2010 6:05:03 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Imagine a day when the politicians have to hold a bake sale to pay for votes!)
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To: decimon

Liberals like Bono want to control everything.


3 posted on 01/03/2010 6:05:03 AM PST by library user
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To: decimon

I’ll tell you what, Bonehead.

I’ll support putting a stop to people downloading your music for free when you put a stop to people taking my earnings (and the earnings of millions of Americans who are just getting by) through taxation and giving that money to all those third-world countries that are your pets.


4 posted on 01/03/2010 6:06:01 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: decimon
Corkoman calls for a 90% tax on all rock shows by Irish bands held in arenas of >12,000 the proceeds to be sent to me.

Its for the chilruun dontchaknow.

5 posted on 01/03/2010 6:06:13 AM PST by corkoman
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To: decimon

It seems large corporate entities, like U2, always lobby governments to protect their assets.


6 posted on 01/03/2010 6:07:15 AM PST by Flag_This (ACORN delenda est)
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To: decimon

Who will rid us of this troublesome muse?


7 posted on 01/03/2010 6:07:18 AM PST by Lazamataz (America has been dead for a while; It's interesting to watch the cadaver cool.)
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To: decimon
Never heard of him, so I guess I'll not be likely to swipe his cultural contribution.
8 posted on 01/03/2010 6:08:05 AM PST by ASA Vet (Iran should have ceased to exist Nov 5, 1979, but we had no president then either.)
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When I was a kid in the 60's and '70's most of my allowance went towards the $5-7 dollars for artists I like.

To me this is karma.... too bad.

9 posted on 01/03/2010 6:09:21 AM PST by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: decimon

Same guy who wants us to share our wealth to 3rd world dictators.

But not his property.

Typical liberal.


10 posted on 01/03/2010 6:10:28 AM PST by nhwingut (Palin/Bachmann '12)
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Who will rid us of this troublesome muse?

I remember reading much the same about you a few years ago.

The old Laz was fun, unlike the new mellow Laz.

11 posted on 01/03/2010 6:11:58 AM PST by ASA Vet (Iran should have ceased to exist Nov 5, 1979, but we had no president then either.)
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To: Flag_This
It seems large corporate entities, like U2...

That would surely rankle Mr. Bono.

12 posted on 01/03/2010 6:13:52 AM PST by decimon
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To: decimon
“The singer pointed out that the US effort to stop child pornography and China?s effort to suppress online dissent indicate that it is “perfectly possible to track” Internet content.”

It's funny how leftist asshats have no problem employing gestapo tactics to protect their money. In fact it's down right hilarious how they promote the forced confiscation of everyone’s wealth to support their pet projects, yet want governments to track down and punish people that are confiscating theirs. What happened to their “from each according to their ability to each according to their needs” philosophy?

13 posted on 01/03/2010 6:13:52 AM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 393)
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Who will rid us of this troublesome muse?

Troublesome musicians?

14 posted on 01/03/2010 6:15:05 AM PST by decimon
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From '06....

St Bono the hypocrite?

Bono, Preacher on Poverty, Tarnishes Halo With Irish Tax Move

What a guy!

15 posted on 01/03/2010 6:15:36 AM PST by mewzilla (Rick Santelli for Man of the Year!)
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Someone recently accurately described Bono as a “mountebank”. I wish it were me.


16 posted on 01/03/2010 6:15:58 AM PST by j.argese
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To: decimon
commi-capitalist...
17 posted on 01/03/2010 6:16:23 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: mewzilla
And from April of '09....

More on Bono's Tax Hypocrisy

18 posted on 01/03/2010 6:17:08 AM PST by mewzilla (Rick Santelli for Man of the Year!)
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To: decimon

If your music is worthless, shouldn’t it be free?


19 posted on 01/03/2010 6:18:00 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: mewzilla
From March '09....

Tax protesters rattle U2 with hypocrisy jibes

20 posted on 01/03/2010 6:18:38 AM PST by mewzilla (Rick Santelli for Man of the Year!)
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