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Jan 04, 10 - 06:20 pm Comment from: Dirty Pierre le Punk

Are we really supposed to believe that the young, musically intense Paul Hewson didn't have bootlegged recordings of bands in his collection? I mean, come on.......

Hey Bono here`s another idea....

blow me

opinions are like assholes, everyone`s got one, just cause you happen to be uber rich does not make you uber right.

Bono, STFU And just sing.

Jan 04, 10 - 06:23 pm Comment from: Wha

Bono's wonderful ideas should stay where his talent is... on torrent sites.

Jan 04, 10 - 06:23 pm Comment from: TheConfuzed1

Woodstock porta...

Hey, I see what you did there.

Jan 04, 10 - 06:23 pm Comment from: HMCIV

@chew

Come a little closer. I'll tear you a new opinion.

Jan 04, 10 - 06:25 pm Comment from: TheConfuzed1

@ X--

He can't very well STFU and sing. You need to pick one or the other.

I agree with chew. Seriously. No one is perfect. And usually, the more moeny someone has the lest perfect they are. (Warren buffet is the exception and that's why people respect him)

The content police ARE coming make NO MISTAKE about it.
But it will be about controlling material produced by big media companies whose content creation costs are high and who must put them behind a pay wall to be able to afford to keep producing it.

Mark 2010 as the year that a lot of free content went away. Remember Napster? Well SOME news, primarily feature stories and in depth integrated content is going up behind pay walls SOON. When people try to steal it...and they will, they will be pursued and legal action will follow. This won't be like file sharing of music files...this is website CONTENT which has been essentially free for some time. Once there's something to be defended (because there is money in it) the lawyers will come out and the watermarks and specialized search tools will come out, and the lawsuits for copying content will follow.

Bono has some both addled and good ideas...clearly.

Bono is still #2 in my opinion

Reminds me of South Park.
Bono have many awards & well known but still he is piece of sh't.

" just cause you happen to be uber rich does not make you uber right."

or uber-wrong!
This just another flame bait posting, let the lefty and righties go at it. Nice way to start the year at MDN.

Jan 04, 10 - 06:37 pm Comment from: MediaXYZ

How much money does an up and coming music act actually get from sales of their first album? Practically nothing. Piracy hurts the music companies more than it hurts the artist. To the artist it is just free advertising.

Of course that doesn't make piracy morally right or provide any legal justification.

Jan 04, 10 - 06:40 pm Comment from: MacSmiley

Getting on Time Magazine's cover has gone to Bono's head, it seems.

ISPs tracking downloads?? In this time of heavy competition in this area, the last thing ISPs are gong to concern themselves with is monitoring downloaded content. Say goodbye to all your top-tier customers paying for the fastest service with the highest caps.

Would be suicide, LOL.

I really can't understand you guys. You seem to think it's well within your rights to steal from musicians, the vast majority of whom really do struggle financially for their craft, yet if anyone tries to steal from Apple, one of the world's richest companies, you turn into a lynch mob. I reckon Bono's opinion on "file sharing and swiping" is absolutely right. Flame away!

"Ethiopian can sell her underpolluting ways"
Underpolluting? 'She' really should try to pull her weight in polluting like the rest of us.

I think a translation of his speech would be "I'm great. Wow, I'm fantastic. Hey! Look how wonderful I am. I care about Ethiopians. I'm not sexist. I hate greed and excess wealth, even though I have it."

@Megame

So you think Bono is still doo doo?

Jan 04, 10 - 06:46 pm Comment from: MacTony

All of these celebs like to talk about carbon footprint. Of course, they all fly private jets, have many houses and cars. So, their carbon footprint is like a really small...... nation.

Jan 04, 10 - 06:48 pm Comment from: montex

Bono weighs in at 80 courics. That's one hell of a pile of s**t!

well said Des send me your address so I can mail you this DVD I just ripped of snow leopard.

@Des Gusting

They don't even have to steal from Apple to get a lynch mob formed. Wasn't Pystar installing paid copies of OSX into their hardware, the people here went loopy.

Jan 04, 10 - 06:57 pm Comment from: Scopie

These ideas make as much sense as Bono's backing of the Pre.

Starting the year off with some hate, eh guys? This shut up and sing business is bullshit. He's allowed to express his opinion, and yes, you are allowed to express yours. But his ideas are pretty benign/interesting and not deserving of such hate. I don't recall one of his ideas being, "kill all babies."

Besides, as Apple fans I'd think you'd support the iTunes model of legal downloading.

Jan 04, 10 - 07:03 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

@ nobo,

" 'She' really should try to pull her weight in polluting like the rest of us."

What, all 67 pounds of it?

I wonder what Bono's carbon footprint is?
I'm sure it's a lot more than mine.
Let's see him live like am Ethiopian.

Jan 04, 10 - 07:08 pm Comment from: qka

Bono could make a Woodstock Festival Porta-Potty look empty.

Then why give him any attention?

Techdirt, as usual, has a good response to this nonsense from Bono - excerpts:

Today, however, the opportunities for the young, fledgling songwriter to build a following, build a business model and make a living have grown tremendously. Ask Jonathan Coulton. Or Corey Smith. Or Matthew Ebel. Or Moto Boy. Or any one of thousands of other songwriters who didn't go the major label route, but have figured out ways to make a living (or better) that simply would not have been possible just a few years ago. [...]

The problem here is that, again, Bono seems to equate file sharing with a loss of money or decrease in output from the wider creative industries. He's flat out wrong. The overall industries continue to grow. It's just a small group of the more powerful middlemen, who have refused to adapt and change with the times, who are stuck in the past. And it's because of their own unwillingness to adapt, that they may be losing some money. But the creative output, and the economic impact of those overall industries continue to grow, no matter how confused some rockstar on a crusade might be about them.

This is just like when Bono was defending himself for moving U2's business entities out of Ireland when the taxes went up for him, while at the same time telling the government officials they should send more money to Africa.
Those ideas are all great....as long as it doesn't affect my grand lifestyle.
Hey Bono, how about a tracking device in your cool Blackberry, so your wife knows when you're with the groupies.
It's always the same, no matter if there's an ISP involved or not:
When you're a young musician, you want people to hear the music, no matter what, but when you're rich, it's all about protecting the empire.

Frank Gehry would make your car out of cardboard!

Koons would make his car out of Cicciolina.

Hey, Bono! How about sharing some of those millions you earned with the Irish tax authorities instead of hiding them in your off shore accounts for decades. You know, what you legally supposed to do? Huh?

Hypocrite.

Who really cares what Mono of Used To thinks?
<crickets>show of hands</crickets>

He is and shall always be a douche bag.

Jan 04, 10 - 07:19 pm Comment from: andeify

this is not news worthy, bono (gayest name ever) is the biggest tit ever and who the fsck cares what he thinks! especialy the government! if they take advice from that turd, there is no hope for humanity!

People do realize that Bono is a tax-dodger, right?

The same NYTs in the past couple years have shown that bands like U2 launder their royalties thru the Netherlands, where they don't pay tax.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/business/yourmoney/04amster.html?sq=u2 and tax haven&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=all

And, here is where Bono blames his Irish critics as hypocrites:
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/u2-respond-to-critics-of-their-deal-with-the-taxman/?scp=1&sq=u2 and tax&st=cse

what a tosser

It seems increasingly clear that Bono is all about the Benjamins.

Notice that he is suddenly all aflutter about file sharing (supposedly on behalf of the "independent artists") yet he has been curiously silent/non-commital on the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger -- a potential monopoly that will, IMHO, result in higher ticket prices ... bad news for indie artists but great news for the big and rich ... like U2.

Really getting sick of this guy.

Looks like a village in ireland is missing their idiot!!!!!!

Jan 04, 10 - 08:53 pm Comment from: Macinfo

Repeat after me, there is NO Global Warming, never has been, never will be..

If someone or some company wants to try and save a dime by going green, go for it, however if your doing it thinking your saving the planet, your wasting your time and probably money installing wind or solar power from which you may never get your ROI..

Bono deserves to die slowly and painfully.

And U2 sucks!!

Yes, I said it.

@TheConfuzed1

I'd go fo STFU.

I don;t mind him singing.

Jan 04, 10 - 09:16 pm Comment from: MDmac

Why is there a picture of Sonny Bono here?

Jan 04, 10 - 09:25 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

"Repeat after me, there is NO Global Warming, never has been, never will be.."

Oh, if only you had shared your knowledge and wisdom with the world from the beginning.

Jan 04, 10 - 09:31 pm Comment from: tbsteph

"Why is there a picture of Sonny Bono here?"

And I thought I was the only one who noticed the the photo mix-up. I don't believe U2 ever released "I've Got You Babe"?

Hard to believe that MDN would first post a picture of Sonny Bono on an article by U2 lead singer Bono and only one other person has caught it.

For all you others Sonny partnered with Cher, became a member Congress and killed himself skiing.

Jan 04, 10 - 10:10 pm Comment from: macbones

Amazing how someone can be such a liberal- except when it comes to HIS money- THEN send in the storm troopers. Ultra-rich piece of crap. And just makes this guy worth a million times anyone else who works their a$$ off? Music piracy has not hurt the little guy- more likely has given him exposure- but groups like U2- Oh yes, they have lost millions- but despite that- these guys are still millions ahead of most of us here.

Cher sent MDN the photo! : )

RIP Sonny Bono!

Regarding Boner, er, Bono, the "1 idea that might make the next 100 years more interesting, healthy or civil." is if YOU and U2 retire and that will let you do more than be a mouth piece for the various charities you speak for. Now you can spend all your time and all your money that you made helping these various people all over the world!

Then you can win the Nobel Peace Prize and the Vatican can make you Saint Bono!

Jan 04, 10 - 10:21 pm Comment from: Cubert

I would love to see Apple allow independent musicians sell their music through iTunes without a label as the middleman. Although I can see many legal hurdles.

U2 didn't make enough money from the highest grossing tour of 2009?

While Bono is looking for suggestions, here's one. Drop the price of CDs below $10.00 and see how that improves CD sales. When the evolution from albums to CDs happened, prices more than doubled but consumers were assured as soon as the "new technology" caught on that the prices would come back down. Still waiting two decades later for that one to happen.

You already can. It's called TuneCore and it's really, really cool.

The photo sure looks like Sonny Bono of Sonny and Cher fame. Or did the late Congressman Bono resurrect himself?

The photo sure looks like Sonny Bono of Sonny and Cher fame. Or did the late Congressman Bono resurrect himself
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Too late for a Captain Obvious Mallet?