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 U2 manager: 'Ultimately free is the enemy of good'
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U2 manager: 'Ultimately free is the enemy of good'
Source: http://news.cnet.com
Paul McGuinness, manager of the iconic band U2, sees stronger copyright laws in France, the Pirate Bay on trial, U.S.-based Internet service providers doing more to protect music, and still he isn't satisfied.
In January 2008, McGuinness delivered a speech that would become a call to arms on both sides of the free-content debate. During his address to attendees of the Midem music conference, the largest recording industry trade show, McGuinness lashed out at the "hippy values" of technologists, accused ISPs of profiting "on the back" of music creators, called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act a "thieves charter" and criticized the big record companies for a "lack of foresight."
Last year, McGuinness, stuck one of the world's most popular and beloved rock bands almost dead into the center of the debate over piracy, copyright, and the role of Internet service providers in protecting music and movies from illegal file sharing. The fallout and criticism, much of which came from technologists and proponents of free content, hasn't shaken McGuinness from his views. In an interview with CNET News, McGuinness once again was critical of ISPs, calling some of their recent piracy-prevention efforts insincere and "illusory."
A year after McGuinness' speech, France this month adopted a "three strikes law," which calls for ISPs to suspend a subscriber's service if they are accused three times of pirating copyright material. Here in the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America promised in December that a group of ISPs had agreed to help the music industry protect content. Some ISPs already had adopted strict enforcement procedures and others have started testing "graduated responses." Still, six months later, no major broadband provider has publicly acknowledged working with the RIAA.
Question: What kind of impact did your Midem speech have?
McGuinness: Well, I suppose I had become over the years alarmed by the decline in the traditional music industry and I suppose to some extent that is typical of me or a characteristic of mine that I will freely confess is very much part of my own business thinking that the giant music corporations were there to be infiltrated and worked with rather than against.
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 0 comments |  Write Comment | May 31, 2009, 02:35:46 am | by: Emilio
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U2 get Magnificent in Morocco
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U2 get Magnificent in Morocco
Source: http://www.examiner.com
Irish rockers U2 have released the video for their second single, “Magnificent”, off of their successful new album “No Line on the Horizon”.
Unlike the video for the first single “Get on Your Boots”, which had images of outer space and sexy girls in military uniforms, “Magnificent” takes a softer approach.
Directed by Alex Courtez (who also directed “Boots”), the band is seen walking through the streets of Fes, Morocco with the desert sun beating down on them. They walk with the locals as white sheets drape the surrounding buildings. Also, they are seen playing in a Moroccan house. Their guitars and amps are propped against the mosaic walls.
As per their official website, U2.com, “Magnificent” will be remixed an astounding four times. Versions of the song by Soha, Adam K, Redanka, Peter Tong, and Fred Falke are available for downloading.
U2 are no strangers to the mythical city of Fes. They recorded parts of their new album there and on the song “Fez: Being Born”, the Moroccan vibe is evident.
Let’s hope they bring a little bit of Morocco with them on their upcoming tour! But for now, satisfy your U2 craving with their “Magnificent” video.
1 comment | Write Comment | May 27, 2009, 09:41:49 pm | by: Emilio
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U2's The Edge riles Malibu residents
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U2's The Edge riles Malibu residents
Source: http://www.livenews.com.au
A few years ago, U2 guitarist The Edge went for a hike, and there in the golden hills overlooking Malibu's cerulean waters, he finally found what he was looking for.
The Edge and his wife, Morleigh Steinberg, bought 156 acres (63 hectares) in the Santa Monica Mountains and now want to build five mansions there, including their own dream home. From a distance, they say, their house will look like nothing more than scattered leaves on the ridgeline.
"These homes will be some of the most environmentally sensitive ever designed in Malibu - or anywhere in the world," the guitarist, whose real name is David Evans, said in a prepared statement.
Nearby residents, however, haven't bought his green pitch and say The Edge is endangering the beauty of one of Southern California's most famous beachfront communities along with U2's globally conscious image.
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0 comments | Write Comment | May 02, 2009, 04:03:01 am | by: Emilio
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U2, Lady GaGa Stay On Top Of Euro Charts
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U2, Lady GaGa Stay On Top Of Euro Charts
Source: http://www.billboard.com
U2 and Lady Gaga continue their reigns on Billboard's pan-European charts. "No Line on the Horizon" (Mercury/Universal) starts a fifth week at the Top 100 Albums summit and "Poker Face" (Interscope/Universal) moves into a seventh week at No. 1 on the European Hot 100 Singles.
"Horizon" has three No. 1 berths across the region, holding steady in Hungary and Greece and moving back 2-1 in Spain. It falls beneath the top ten, 9-17, in the United Kingdom, where "Magnificent" will be released as its second single May 4, and 1-2 in Portugal, but is up 3-2 in the Belgian region of Flanders.
As "Poker Face" continues at No. 1 in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Flanders and neighboring Wallony, and moves 2-1 in Holland, Lady Gaga's "The Fame" spends a fourth week at No. 2 on Top 100 Albums. It heads the U.K. chart for the first time, moving 3-1 on sales of 38,000 from a total to last weekend of 284,000. It's also up 2-1 in Ireland and 4-3 in Switzerland.
The top new pan-European entry is Diana Krall's "Quiet Nights" (Verve/Universal), at No. 3. That improves on the No. 6 debut of the vocalist's last studio release, "From This Moment On," in 2006. The new set makes its best showing at No. 1 in Portugal, where "Moment" opened at No. 8 before climbing to No. 4. "Nights" is also in at No. 2 in Norway, No. 3 in Austria, No. 5 in France, No. 7 in Germany and No. 8 in Italy.
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0 comments | Write Comment | April 12, 2009, 10:04:25 pm | by: Emilio
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U2’s Band Manager Praises France’s “Three-Strikes” Law
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U2’s Band Manager Praises France’s “Three-Strikes” Law
Source: http://www.zeropaid.com
Says it’s a “myth that artists can build long-term careers on live music alone.”
Paul McGuiness, band manager for Irish-rock band U2 for well over 30 years, has taken another swing at file-sharers, this time with his praise for France’s recent passage of a “three-strikes” law, and with his hope that “the rest of the world may follow” in its footsteps.
In a post on the UK’s Guardian, he says the “crisis in our music community is real” and that the French govt, by recently passing the controversial “Creation and Internet Law” which establishes a formal system, the HADOPI, for sanctioning repeat file-sharers.
“By proposing the creation and internet law, the French government is protecting artists’ rights as well as those of internet users,” he writes.
Why he thinks the law protects the rights of Internet users by giving corporations control over the Internet pipe into your house is beyond me.
He then goes on to say that the copyright debate is an important one that he thinks will “shape the lives and the working conditions of creative professionals for years, even decades, to come.”
That’s because artists and record label execs have much more terrible working conditions of late compared to the thousands of unemployed autoworkers, teachers, and construction workers.
McGuiness hopes that France’s new “three-strikes” law will also lead to a worldwide copyright law revolution, that the “rest of the world may follow.”
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0 comments | Write Comment | April 12, 2009, 10:02:28 pm | by: Emilio
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