Radiohead, MTV, human trafficking video
p2pnet news | Music:- There’ll be no more freebies like the pay-whatever-you-want download of In Rainbows, says Radiohead.
From now on, hard cash only.
And having got that out of the way, Thom Yorke, “and the rest of his Radiohead bandmates have joined forces with MTV EXIT (End Exploitation and Trafficking) to produce a music video for ‘All I Need,’ a song from their In Rainbows album, which will be broadcast globally on Thursday in the hopes of raising awareness to the more than 2.5 million men, women and children who are forced, defrauded or coerced into various forms of labor or prostitution,” says MTV.
“They’ve produced a video of two parallel stories running, one of a little boy in the West and one of a little boy in a sweatshop in the East, and the boy [in the West] ends up buying the shoes from the sweatshop,” the story has Yorke saying.
“It’s actually quite powerful.”
Adds the story:
“While Yorke knows that a single video can’t stem the tide, he hopes that the ‘All I Need’ clip can be a beginning step in ushering in global change. And he’s not stopping there, either. At each stop on Radiohead’s upcoming North American, European and Asian tours, youth activists belonging to anti-human-trafficking organizations will be on hand to distribute information.”
Here’s the YouTube video.
Genuine effort, do you think?
Quite probably —- unlike the Bono / Apple Red exploit campaign.
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.Stumble It!
MTV – Radiohead Join Forces With MTV’s Campaign Against Human Trafficking For ‘All I Need’ Video, April 30, 2008
Red exploit campaign – Another red Apple nano, November 6, 2006
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May 1st, 2008 at 12:04 pm
What the hell does the opening paragraph have to do with the rest of the article? And where’s your source on that quote/paraphrase??
May 1st, 2008 at 5:03 pm
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9932361-7.html and a shitload more.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:02 pm
About the no more free downloads;
Call me crazy, but I never thought it was a good idea for them to make payment optional. If you give people a choice and tell them that it’s ok if they don’t pay, many of them won’t. Then they’ll use up the bandwidth downloading free copies. Tell them that they need to pay maybe $2 to download the album, and 100% of the downloads will be paid for. No, not everyone will buy it, some will still download it for free from P2P networks. The point is that they won’t waste the band’s bandwidth downloading free copies from them. The only downloads from their site will be paid for. Also, many people will think “It’s only $2 and it’s the proper thing to do, so why not?”
You don’t have to completely dump the traditional buyer/seller business model, just give people what they want at a good price.