[Infowarrior] - more on ... Bono = the next Lars Ulrich?

[Richard Forno]

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> From:  xxxxxx
> Date: January 3, 2010 10:33:58 PM EST
> To: rforno at infowarrior.org
> Subject: Re: [Infowarrior] - Bono = the next Lars Ulrich?
>
> Bono has it all wrong:  I haven't bought a U2 album since Achtung  
> Baby, NOT because of file-sharing (I literally don't possess any CDs  
> or MP3s of theirs after that album. No, I haven't bought a U2 album  
> since Achtung Baby because everything of theirs since then, has  
> kinda' sucked.
>
> I'm happy to pay for quality. I've been given a rip of a movie here  
> or there (really the same as borrowing a DVD, which is still  
> perfectly legal), and if it's good... I'll go out and buy the thing  
> legit. If it sucks, no money lost on my part.
>
> Yes, the Internet means some people want everything free. We've also  
> found with iTunes (among others) and more recently with the  
> miserably-DRM'd Kindle, that the vast majority of people are willing  
> to spend their own money to support the RIAA and MPAA - and, on a  
> smaller scale, the actors and musicians they claim to represent.
>
> No worthwhile act has gone broke in the Internet Age due to file  
> sharing. Britney Spears still has loads of cash to roll into $100  
> coke straws, George Lucas has made more from the second Star Wars  
> trilogy than we spend in the entire Middle East in a year (or close  
> to it), and the RIAA and MPAA still has plenty of cash to pay their  
> lawyers to sue grandmothers who don't even own computers.
>
> Blaming ISPs for their users sharing via P2P (or HTTP, or FTP,  
> or...) is like blaming forks for Rosie O'Donnell being fat. It just  
> doesn't compute.
>
> In other words, "hey Bono, pogue mahone!"
>

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