If I was U2, I would pay their manager Paul McGuiness cash money to shut his face about the music industry.
Whether his all property is mine attitude towards recording is right or wrong isn't the point really, the point is that it is unbecoming to whine about how much money you are making when you are making money hand over fist.
Here is the loud mouth Paul, happy that the US is about to ran down a preposterous copywrites law down the country's throat, proves his complete inability to grasp the basics. As part of a finally paid off favor dating from the Reagan era and by now morphed into a finger in the eye whereby we are turning Internet Service Provider's (ISPs) into policemen, the ISP's have been advised to pick it up when it comes to illegal downloading.
This is what McGuinness told the Daily Telegraph in the UK as reported by NME: "This has been agonizingly slow in coming, but it is an important step forward in the international debate over music in the digital age. The idea of ISPs taking on obligations to stop copyright theft on their networks is moving into the mainstream."
He also claimed that "fighting free with free" was not a viable route to combating illegal downloading, and said that services such as Spotify and We7 had "not much hope of long-term success".
"For some years, 'fighting free with free' seemed the answer to all our problems," he said. "Today, that honeymoon is over. Spotify, in many countries the champion of the free-to-consumer music streaming service, is now cutting back on its free offering. It is trying to migrate its fans into payers, offering a £10 monthly subscription. That is a huge challenge."
Oh yeah? It is hard to no where to begin with this. How about here: it is IMPOSSIBLE TO POLICE THE WEB. THERE IS TOO MUCH CONTENT FLOWING AROUND.
But Paul doesn't need to worry because within a generation, file swapping will be dead and everybody will be getting their content free on Youtube. Then what is a moneyhead like McGuinness gonna do?