Also see http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/opinion/03bono.html?scp=2 <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/opinion/03bono.html?scp=2&sq=bono&st=cse> &sq=bono&st=cse.
He is not alone in being a "progressive" who is happy with DRM. It's like being a strong free speech advocate as long as it is good speech. Intellectual Property Developers Skip <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/opinion/03bono.html?scp=2&sq=bono&st=cse# secondParagraph> to next paragraph http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/01/02/opinion/bono-intellectual/art icleInline.jpg Peter Arkle Caution! The only thing protecting the movie and TV industries from the fate that has befallen music and indeed the newspaper business is the size of the files. The immutable laws of bandwidth tell us we're just a few years away from being able to download an entire season of "24" in 24 seconds. Many will expect to get it free. 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 - and the people this reverse Robin Hooding benefits are rich service providers, whose swollen profits perfectly mirror the lost receipts of the music business. We're the post office, they tell us; who knows what's in the brown-paper packages? But we know from America's noble effort to stop child pornography, not to mention China's ignoble effort to suppress online dissent, that it's perfectly possible to track content. Perhaps movie moguls will succeed where musicians and their moguls have failed so far, and rally America to defend the most creative economy in the world, where music, film, TV and video games help to account for nearly 4 percent of gross domestic product. Note to self: Don't get over-rewarded rock stars on this bully pulpit, or famous actors; find the next Cole Porter, if he/she hasn't already left to write jingles. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lauren Weinstein Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 12:25 To: [email protected] Subject: [ NNSquad ] U2's Bono suggests Chinese-style tracking of P2P users, etc. U2's Bono suggests Chinese-style tracking of P2P users, etc. http://bit.ly/4xZhHE (BBC) --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator
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