Bono as anti-DRM figurehead?
p2p news / p2pnet: Some 5,000 people have, “pledged to take action to stop DRM,” says a Defective By Design email to p2pnet going on, “We have had mainstream press coverage, and the editors we are speaking to want to write more. The drum beat against DRM grows louder.”
With this in mind, could U2’s Bono become a spokesman for Digital Freedoms and against DRM? – it wonders.
With your help, “we will ask Bono to stand with us,” says the new activist outfit, the instigator the recent Call the RIAA campaign.
The group now wants people to sign a petition, “Encouraging Bono to take a stand on DRM”.
It’ll, “send a powerful message, and the faster we get these signatures, the clearer the message,” states Defective By Design. “We will deliver a printed version of the petition with your name on it to Bono.”
U2 is, meanwhile, the acknowledged poster band for Apple’s iPod.
See:
Call the RIAA – Phone the RIAA and CRIA June 23, 2006
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June 30th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
the ipod can play MP3s and ACC tracks without DRM
But your right they use the iPod as a toll to tie you to the itunes music store .
June 30th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
therell be 1 question in bonos mind – whats in it for me?
June 30th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
Steve Page from the BNL was previously anti-P2P back in the early days of Napster, and has since changed his mind and recognized the benefits and inevitability.
It is quite possible that Bono has never spent a moment to think about this. Many non-technical people have absolutely no idea what DRM is, including *RIA* lobbiests that are asking for it (Hillary/etc).
If Bono’s constituents ask for it, he’ll likely drop in line for fear of his credability being hurt. He will be forced to respond one way or the other, and if he comes out publicly as pro-DRM (He’s been vague so far on DRM AFAIK) he’ll see boycotts.
See also: http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/2523