U2′s Manager Calls for Mandatory Disconnects of Music Downloaders
U2′s Manager Calls for Mandatory Disconnects of Music Downloaders
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“In a speech at the Midem music industry convention in Cannes, Paul McGuinness, longtime manager of the band U2, has called on Internet service providers to immediately introduce mandatory French-style service disconnections to end music downloading, and has urged governments to force ISPs to adopt such policies. McGuinness criticized Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ pay-what-you-want business model, saying that ‘the majority of downloads were through illegal P2P download services like BitTorrent and LimeWire’. He also accused ISPs, telcos, device makers, and numerous specifically named companies such as Apple, Google, Yahoo!, Oracle, and Facebook of building ‘multi billion dollar industries on the back of our content without paying for it’, and of being ‘makers of burglary kits’ who have made ‘a thieves’ charter’ to steal money from the music industry. The full text of his speech has been posted on U2′s website.”
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