Paul McGuinness

U2: The Unforgettable Embarrassment

John Paczkowski in News on February 20, 2009 at 7:35 am PT

U2 manager Paul McGuinness must be beside himself. Despite the band’s best efforts to prevent its new album, “No Line on the Horizon,” from appearing prematurely on the Internet, copies are being distributed there a week prior to its scheduled release. It’s not the fault of the ISPs, never mind that they are, according to McGuinness, “destroying the recorded music industry” by failing to tackle piracy.

Luck of the Irish?

John Paczkowski in News on August 19, 2008 at 8:52 am PT

U2 manager Paul McGuinness likes to blame those crazy longhairs in Silicon Valley for aiding and abetting music piracy, but perhaps he should be pointing the finger at his own boss.

U2: The Unforgettable Ire

John Paczkowski in News on June 5, 2008 at 9:01 am PT

If Bono is U2’s geopolitical pragmatist, the band’s manager, Paul McGuinness, is its neo-Luddite. At the Music Matters confab in Hong Kong, McGuinness slagged broadband Internet service providers, accusing them of aiding and abetting music piracy while CD sales and royalty payments to musicians plunge.