commi-capitalist...Once established, you want your world closed to competition. Rules rule.
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.
Liberals like Bono want to control everything.
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.
Its for the chilruun dontchaknow.
It seems large corporate entities, like U2, always lobby governments to protect their assets.
Who will rid us of this troublesome muse?
To me this is karma.... too bad.
Same guy who wants us to share our wealth to 3rd world dictators.
But not his property.
Typical liberal.
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?
Bono, Preacher on Poverty, Tarnishes Halo With Irish Tax Move
What a guy!
Someone recently accurately described Bono as a “mountebank”. I wish it were me.
commi-capitalist...If your music is worthless, shouldn’t it be free?
However, I never really bought the argument that each act of piracy is indeed a lost sale. Methinks most of the people doing the pirating would have never bought legitimate copies of the content anyway, as opposed to physical goods being stolen, which does indeed represent a lost sale.
Bono should be focusing his energy on figuring out how he became such a crappy songwriter after Achtung Baby. I would happily cough up $15 for anything that comes close to The Unforgettable Fire or Joshua Tree.
Most musicians are finding that putting their music up on YouTube is the best free advertising they can get and pushes up their live performance attendance. I think this is trend that is irreversible and, while it may hurt some of the top draws like U2, it allows the unknowns to climb up the ladder. For example I discovered Brandi Carlile on YouTube and plan to go to her live performance when she shows up in Anaheim next March. No YouTube video would mean at least one less Anaheim ticket sale. I think my example is pretty common.
And while putting your own video on YouTube hardly makes it public domain it has the same affect. There are many tools for downloading YouTube videos to your computer, many in HD formats, that are perfectly suitable for viewing on your Ethernet or computer connected HDTV. If this wasn't benefiting the great majority of the today's musicians then they wouldn't be allowing it to happen. Google/YouTube will certainly delete any copyright material on request and, AFAIK, only Warner Records has elected to do so. I predict Warner will reverse that policy at some point in the future when they start to lose clients because of it.
Him and the Horse he rode in on and the smithy that shoe’d the horse.
