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McGuinness Blasts Internet Companies |
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U2 manager's Paul McGuinness used his keynote interview at MIDEM to urge internet service providers to help end illegal music downloads, asking for the disconnection of those who acquire tracks illegally.
U2 manager's Paul McGuinness used his keynote interview at MIDEM
to urge internet service providers to help end illegal music downloads,
asking for the disconnection of those who acquire tracks illegally.
McGuinness
emphasized that it was time for artists to stand up against what he
called the "shoddy, careless and downright dishonest way they have been
treated in the digital age" making it clear that he blamed record
labels and governments who "created a thieves' charter" by agreeing
that ISPs should not be responsible for what passed along their
networks, adding "if you were a magazine, advertising stolen cars,
handling the money for stolen cars and seeing to the delivery of stolen
cars, the police would soon be at your door. That's no different to an
ISP, but they say they can't do anything about it. If you steal a
laptop from a store or don't pay for your broadband service, you'll
soon be cut off and nicked."
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