Paul McGuinness is at it again

Yeah, way to go Paul you big #%^$ing @%$hole
No way is this man the least bit concerned about the artists. The sooner musicians break free of their corporate bosses the better.
This guy should just shut the hell up.

A Very Bad and Desperate Idea

Music industry fools run around around like headless chickens
or something like that...

If the record companies receive this tithe from the ISPs there is little hope of it ever reaching the artists (as recently proven by the news that the millions in damages won by the RIAA have not been disbursed to artists in any significant amounts). This is yet another desperate bid by the big 4 to shore up their failing profits and to forestall the collapse of their antiquated business model. As I've said before, the record companies need to break apart their various departments and go independent if they wish to survive in business.

To be remotely fair, the record companies would need to agree to some kind of no contest clause - so that regardless of what music content is shared online they would not attempt to interfere in any way with the natural order of P2P file sharing. They should be legally required to take the undeserved pound of flesh and shut the hell up.

Judging by this report and several others in the recent past, these talking heads know very little about anything and their primary role is to protect failing businesses by curbing progress and creativity. The welfare of the artists is not a significant consideration in any of these discussions or proposals.

It is reassuring to know how desperate they really are and that it is now and ever will be safe to download freely with roughly a 0.000488% chance of being shaken down by the so called 'content providers'. One day, we will all look back at this time and laugh, grimly, because there is little chance that human stupidity is on the wane...

Amen

Crazy mixed-up NBC...why I oughta...

They don't really know what they are doing, do they?

Ireland to be Guinea Pig in ISP piracy battle?

IFPI Takes Irish ISP (Eircom) to Court
Let's just hope this suit gets thrown out.
Eircom’s lawyers...say that Eircom was “not on notice of specific illegal activity that infringed the rights of the companies”, adding that it was under no legal obligation to monitor traffic on its network.
I agree wholeheartedly...

More on the same subject

ISPs Choking Bandwidth?

Yes - it is pretty obvious they do as described in this article:
Comcast nefarious activity
I believe Network Solutions also does this. Correction, I should say RCN as they are the ISP I experienced this with. Network Solutions suck in other ways. Their 'hold' 'music' is some of the worst on the planet and their help people are mostly rude attitood exuding assholes. Though to be fair i have talked to a couple of very decent helpful people there...
Regarding the bandwidth choking, it all goes to show that the ISPs have no idea what is legal and what is illegal P2P activity.

...well...this bollocks from U2's manager

I wrote a few words on this earlier but frankly the linked transcript speaks for itself. On the surface a lot of what he says seems to make sense - but really it is just all about corporate business as usual. Particularly nasty is his urging that ISPs be held responsible for stopping piracy on their networks. Almost as bad, his promotion of music subscription services. Bloody hell. Can that idea still be viable? Surely not!
So read and be very wary...
Here's his industry rant