chief108
5th January 2010, 20:34
SOURCE (http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/04/having-fixed-africa.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Bo ing%29&utm_content=Google+Reader)
Bono, in a New York Times top-ten essay (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/opinion/03bono.html?pagewanted=1&hp) filled with of Brilliant Ideas That Will Fix The World If Only They'd Listen To Moi, says "Intellectual Property Developers" are doomed because of filesharing. Snip: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/04/bonohed.jpg 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." Ah yes, the "noble effort to stop child pornography," always good to lead with that one when you're proposing draconian net-trawling tactics. After all, those efforts did stop child pornography, right? And surely what's good for squashing China's dissidents is good for the world! Cory (http://twitter.com/doctorow/)'s on holiday, but you can bet he had some pithy goodness to tweet, after the jump.
Bono, in a New York Times top-ten essay (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/opinion/03bono.html?pagewanted=1&hp) filled with of Brilliant Ideas That Will Fix The World If Only They'd Listen To Moi, says "Intellectual Property Developers" are doomed because of filesharing. Snip: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/04/bonohed.jpg 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." Ah yes, the "noble effort to stop child pornography," always good to lead with that one when you're proposing draconian net-trawling tactics. After all, those efforts did stop child pornography, right? And surely what's good for squashing China's dissidents is good for the world! Cory (http://twitter.com/doctorow/)'s on holiday, but you can bet he had some pithy goodness to tweet, after the jump.