On No ! It’s Bono !
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Almost exactly a year ago the new York Times ran Notes From the Chairman, ie, U2’s Bono, a legend in his own mind.
“I don’t sing and Bono shouldn’t write,” said Bob Lefsetz at the time.
Now the NYT has done it again, giving the Chairman of Mouth a platform.
Says Bono in his Ten for the Next Ten OpEd >>>
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.
“This is the emperor’s new clothes,” said Lefsetz last year, asking, “Didn’t Bono have to submit any samples? Couldn’t they have rejected this piss-poor piece before they printed it?”
He added:
“I’ve got to believe a ton of ‘Times’ writers are tearing their hair out today. Their jobs are in jeopardy, but a bunch of ink can be used up by this poser? It’s like letting a Little Leaguer take swings in a Major League game!
“But you’re sitting there snickering, saying who gives a shit about the ‘New York Times’ anyway. You’re right. The ‘New York Times’ is about as prepared for the Net future as the record companies were. And you know how that played out. Putting Bono in the paper is like a label head insisting that CDs are great, that the older generation loves them!”
No need to stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
January, 2010
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January 3rd, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Unfortunately, a very large populous still listens to the likes of Bono. If Bono said “Spam was healthy” they’d realize he was full of it, but that’s only because the masses of sheep already know this. If Bono said “eat as much as you want, it’s not your fault you are fat” they would believe him because that’s just how ignorant they are, those blessed with selective hearing and vision.
The new artists Bono talks about already know how to use the web to make themselves profitable and living comfortably. The artists he gets his info from are the U2 or Nickelback wannabees who want sex, drugs, and millions thrown at them for mixing rap and rock (anyone remember Run DMC and Aerosmith? Yeah 1986! Try to be original will you?).
January 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 pm
I for one will cancel my internet connection the second P2P becomes capitalized.
In a world where the MAJORITY is very poor but we are still entitled to Media regardless if we have MONEY OR NOT.
If all your Media was just for people with MONEY then a huge amount of People would never even have heard of Bono.
We are on the brink of world wide destruction and you are all so upset about people downloading your material, Get over it.
We are entitled to it.
Don’t worry in about 2- 3 years Ipods will be obsolete as NO ONE WILL HAVE HYDRO OR COMPUTERS ANYMORE let alone be living
January 3rd, 2010 at 9:47 pm
He is probably a paid-up member of the Featured Artists Coalition.
January 3rd, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Wow though. Straight from the horse’s mouth – he wants censorship of the net like freaking *china* to preserve the dinosaurs? Smart internet folk have been patiently explaining for some time that the only way in the end to enforce copyright now is a system that’d make stasi east germany look like a walk in the park. I guess it’s nice to see one of the artists actually acknowledge that what they want is an authoritarian nightmare for humanity…
January 4th, 2010 at 1:00 am
I’m surprised they would even let this guy print so much as a syllable in the NY Times. I guess now we know where he stands, though. Maybe he’ll change his tune when his profits start to decrease due to the boycott…
But of course this is just wishful thinking.
January 4th, 2010 at 2:27 am
Pay no attention to him. Bono and his band U2 are tax dodgers. Suck it up Bono.
January 4th, 2010 at 3:56 am
To much drugs killed his braincells
very clear case of a complete idiot.
January 4th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
” I’m surprised they would even let this guy print so much as a syllable in the NY Times. ”
This really isn’t that surprising.
The NYT represents ‘credibility’ to the ignorant, and is owned by the same companies that own the labels.
It is completely expected that they would print whatever is necessary to justify their ends.
note to NYT ..
Dear editors,
This type of paid for, fact free reporting is the reason you are becoming obsolete, not the Internet.
When you can’t be trusted, you won’t be listened to.
January 4th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
The least time we spent on referencing this 400 million in the bank tax dodger the better, he is a hypocrite of the highest order and thankfully in decline along with the manager who works this puppets oratory orifice.
BoZo who ?
May 10th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
put this tax dodger in jail then we don,t have to listen to his tripe anymore