French 3 strikes law is right: U2 McGuinnes
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- French president Nicolas Sarkozy and FNAC retail chain boss Denis Olivennes will rest a little easier.
The other U2 big mouth, Paul McGuinnes, says the two are right to be backing the corporate music and movie industry anti-P2P, anti-file sharing, anti-consumer three-strikes-and-you’re out-bill.
With it, the French goverment is protecting artists’ rights as well as those of internet users, says McGuinnes in a long and fulsome editorial in Le Figaro, republished in The Guardian.
McGuinnes is the general factotum for the Irish band U2 led, as the world knows, by On No it’s Bono, and McGuinnes makes sure to use the editorial to promote himself first, and then U2, the band he’s managed for “over 30 years”.
And then he gets right down to it.
Well, not right down, exactly.
He flatulates at great length before repeating the corporate party line — that the internet needs needs rules, “and ones that can be practically enforced,” ie, “a sensible strategy whereby ISPs prohibit illegal use of their networks, and actually enforce those rules”.
Yes, he really does say it’s up to ISPs to police their networks and act against their own customers on behalf of the major music labels and Hollywood studios.
However, the providers weren’t going to “offer this cooperation” without being “required to by law”.
Not that ISP chiefs are bad people, McGuiness hastily reassures us. It’s just it’s “impossible to imagine any of them voluntarily conceding to steps that could put them at a commercial disadvantage to their competitors” and thus, “Legislation to require a pan-industry solution was the right step, and a visionary one.”
Concerns? There are a few, but not so many. In fact,” in many cases these are being enormously exaggerated,” says The Mouth, adding:
“If we believe that artists’ rights need respecting and that musicians deserve to be paid as surveys show the vast majority of people do then we should defend their rights in practice and not just in words. I believe a society that cares about creators’ rights should not shy away from enforcing the law that protects them.
“The French government should be congratulated it is proposing a law that is a workable solution to the problem of online piracy. It has brought together ISPs and content industries in a way that will effectively protect music and film rights, while respecting important consumer freedoms. There is a crucial lesson here for governments all over the world.”
Meanwhile, I`m French, says Philippe in a p2pnet Reader’s Write, and, “It`s possible that the law will not pass the Constitutional Council. So we have still a chance.
“And if the law pass, it will be active only in about 10 months. And it`s possible that the the law will simply not be applicated.
“So to be continued Stay in touch with the Quadrature website – http://www.laquadrature.net/en/”.
The Guardian – Why France has the solution to online piracy, April 7, 2009
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April 9th, 2009 at 9:38 am
McGuiness needs to have his head shoved in a toilet bowl and given a major swirly by everyone that he claims to be pirates. The reason U2’s music ain’t selling is because no one wants to hear their lame 80’s garbage and their inept moronic lead singer Bozo, oh, sorry, I mean Bono. I wouldst imagine both he and McGuiness are now throwing fits because saner heads in the French Parliament has turned thumbs down on the proposal from the Big 4 to create the three strikes law.
April 9th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Paul is one of the greediest and fattest pigs out there, we tore his two speeches to shreads before
(http://ezee.se/articles-blog/2008/03/15/u2s-manager-paul-mcguinness-the-fat-greedy-corporate-dinosaur-speech-pt-1/)
but dont bother with this dinosaur anymore… he’s just not worth it.
April 9th, 2009 at 10:45 am
“If we believe that ARTISTS’ RIGHTS need respecting and that MUSICIANS deserve to be paid â as surveys show the vast majority of people do â then we should defend their rights in practice and not just in words. I believe a society that cares about CREATORS’ RIGHTS should not shy away from enforcing the law that protects them.”
(Caps added by me in this quote) this statement should be re-writen to say
“If we believe that license holders rights need respecting and that managers deserve to be paid â as surveys show the vast majority of The Big 4 do â then we should defend their rights in practice and not just in words. I believe a society (RIAA MPAA) that cares about Copyright rights should not shy away from enforcing the law that protects them.”
Anybody with a brain knows the artists dont own the rights, and every schill above them gets paid first!!
Want the artists to get paid?? I DO! The schills need to go away!!
April 9th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
U2 is generic trash.