U2 Manager Says Google and Its Hippie Friends Should Pay the Recording Industry

January 30, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

While the IFPI and the RIAA have been actively pushing for ISP liability for file-sharing, it appears some in the industry are taking it even further. U2′s manager for 30 years, Paul McGuinness, gave a talk at the Midem conference where he blamed Silicon Valley’s “hippie values” for creating the problem and demanded that tech companies of all stripes start paying the recording industry. He’s talking not only about ISPs, but also Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and basically every other successful tech company. There are so many problems with this, it’s difficult to know where to begin.

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