Posted on 01/03/2010 9:18:51 AM PST by Paul46360
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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I have thousands of songs on my ipod, all of which I paid for. My music collection cost me about $4500. My daughter has 5 times as much, all downloaded without purchasing. What she has done, is clearly wrong.
But, what is indisputable, is that right or wrong, it is a fact, and there appears to be no way to stop it. The answer is something, forward thinking. Again, I think the answer is that live music will make a big comeback. Musicians are partly to blame for their plight. Disconnected from their audience, overpriced product, low quality, and too many fingers in the middle made stealing music a no brainer.
For me, it is cheaper and less hassles, to just go buy the cd at walmart or target, and for 10-20 bucks I got the actual discs. Now, if they moved price points to 3-7 bucks, I’d bet some people would prefer having the quality of the discs themselves, and could also afford it. Plus, the unit volume would probably spike much higher.
The industry must come clean, fess up that production costs are a fraction of what they used to be, and now need to pass the savings on to the consumer.
“What she has done, is clearly wrong.”
If she invented the Ipod or the computer I might agree. If she was never told by someone that it was wrong, she would never know.
No it won’t, dumbass. Look it up, if you’re capable of looking stuff up.
By the way...the term is “copyright,” not “copywrite.”
“No it won’t, dumbass. Look it up, if you’re capable of looking stuff up.”
I can mail you an unsealed envelope via US Mail.
You have no clue.
So what? I'm not going to debate with a retard.
Items mailed pursuant to Poor Man's Copyright have always required sealed envelopes and dates, and these haven't always stood up in court...much less tampered-with envelopes.
You're out of your league. Go share your ignorance with someone else.
“You’re out of your league. Go share your ignorance with someone else.
I don’t mind helping people out, whether in my league or not. It’s my pleasure. You’ll never learn if you think you know it all. And, you don’t. Not even close.
I have it down to a science. Take care.
Anyhow, Bono has nothing to worry from me. Not interested in his rubbish, or pretty much anything that is produced by the “entertainment” industry these days.
Your analysis is quite accurate, I think.
The buggy-whip manufacturers were real people, who suffered financially due to technological change.
Same thing. You write a hit song and see if you like free downloads vs. actually selling your song. It's up to you.
Bono is a very rich man. Why does he want more? Doesn’t he want the poor to have music???? What about the poor in Africa, hmmmm? I guess he really doesn’t care that much after all. Oh, the disillusion.
Bono is a firm believer in free speech until it costs him money.
Then you need to go after the people SHARING the music, not the people downloading it.
It will be the Grateful Dead model. The Dead, btw, were the most financially successful music act before Jerry succombed to bodily abuse. Think of them as Estimated Prophets LOL.
DRM pisses me off. A few years back I downloaded Rhapsody music. I have tried updating my DRM and it says I don’t have the DRM on these songs I bought and so they sit unplayable. While everything else I got (from amazon or itunes) plays fine.
YUp, and sue Al Gore who invented internet. He can afford it.
I thought Windows was smart enough to simply download U2 content directly to the Recycle Bin.
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