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Ban music thieves from web,
says U2 manager
Nicole Martin
London
Telegraph
Tuesday January 29, 2008
Music fans who repeatedly download songs illegally
should have their internet connections severed, the manager of
U2 has said.
Paul McGuinness, who has managed the best-selling
group for 30 years, attacked internet service providers for failing
to clamp down on illegal file-sharing.
He said the refusal of internet firms to punish
those who download music without paying was "the single biggest
failure in the digital music market".
He called on them to adopt a "three strikes and you're out"
enforcement policy under which illegal downloaders would have
to start paying for music or face having their ISP subscriptions
terminated.
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"We must shame them into wanting to help us. Their snouts
have been at our trough feeding free for too long," Mr McGuinness
said at the Midem music industry conference in Cannes.
"For ISPs in general, the days of prevaricating over their
responsibilities for helping protect music must end. The ISP lobbyists
who say they should not have to 'police the internet' are living
in the past - relying on outdated excuses from an earlier technological
age."
His call follows a report last week which showed that while worldwide
sales of digital music grew by 40 per cent last year, they were
still not enough to offset a sharp fall in CD sales.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which
represents record companies across the world, warned that the
"crisis" in the music industry would deepen unless ISPs
took action against the millions of people who illegally download
music.
Many ISPs have been reluctant to police the illegal activities
of their customers, preferring to rely on record labels to bring
cases against them.
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