Bono: "Fuck Freedom... I want my money!"

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Another one of the loony, self-important celebs with little talent and big press reviews, this singer of pop has decided that freedom is not worth the money he and other 'idols' are losing to online pirating. Are there ways to stop it? Sure.

But this starshiptroopersunglasses wearin' dude wants the government to snoop our hard drives looking for stolen copies of pop crap and Pauley Shore movies. I wonder what his stance was on snooping on terrorists?

I think I know.

Terrorists: Good! NO way are we to infringe on their right to wage a war against kids and innocents.
Kids 'stealing' copies of "Twilight": EVIL... crush them and all who are involved. We will break into their computers and 'poke around' till we find what we want. And if we don't find what we want, we'll just plant some stuff there.

If they can snoop, they can upload... toad.

Just nice to know that people who decry capitalism are so fucking capitalist it makes you sick. Two-faced bullshit on a stick. The music industry is PURE capitalism. Other people front the costs of creating the 'music' and the recording and then share in the profits (and losses... heh, you know what I mean... right). That, my friends, IS capitalism.

Keep in mind that his band set attendance and GROSS records last year. Wonder if he shared the millions with the guys who put up the scaffolding or drove the trucks. Just, you know... wonderin'...

He really shows himself to be not the deep thinker his PR folks have whipped him up to be. The quote below would have taken a kid with a second grade knowledge of math to shoot holes in.

But... hey... he cares... he really does. He said so.

But coming from a person who doesn't understand how his own business works, can't do basic math and is a supporter of totalitarianism, that means... well, maybe not so much.

Hollywood Wiretap - Entertainment news, celebrity news, tv news, movie news, and entertainment industry news:

"He went on to say that 'the people this reverse Robin Hooding benefits are rich service providers, whose swollen profits perfectly mirror the lost receipts of the music business.'

By that logic, the irascible Tech Dirt figured Bono must have decided that 'all the money that people used to spend on music, they now spend on internet connections.'

Even if that outrageous notion were true, it seems more than a little totalitarian for Bono to recommend 'that China's ignoble effort to suppress online dissent [shows] that it's perfectly possible to track content.'"

Another brilliant quote from Bumos NYT rant:

"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."

Yeah... sending Grandma to jail for her grandkids downloading snoop dog, and killing kids in China for wanting to know about freedom (sorry, google...they find out about that along the way - no thanks to you) is the perfect model.

I hate damn IP thieves as much as any artist. I can't stand IP theft. I don't download or use pirated anything. I even hate microstock.

But introducing the government to my hard-drive because one of the richest men in the world wants more? Sorry, Bunno... ain't something I'm getting behind.