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Moderator: OneSalient
Gruppenstatus: Offen
Gegründet am: 24. Mär. 2008
Beschreibung:
U2 should let people copy their music.

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This group of U2 fans believe that...

* Modern technology has gotten to the point where music is best distributed free via file sharing.

* The recent release of Ghosts I-IV by Nine Inch Nails is an example of how the music industry will operate in the future. All 36 tracks of Ghosts I-IV were released under a Creative Commons license which allows anyone to copy and distribute them, including through the practice of file sharing.

* U2 needs to win over a new generation of fans by embracing and encouraging free and legal file sharing of all their recordings.

* U2 should release all of their recordings either into the Public Domain or under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike licence.

* U2 should make available all of their recordings free to download at a website in various DRM-free forms (including .mp3 .ogg .flac .wav .aac .m4a .wma .aiff). This would include CD-quality files with high bitrates.

* U2 should make all future recordings available in the same way.

* Bono, Edge, Larry and Adam don't need any more money. If any of them need money, they can make a fortune simply by touring.

* U2's manager, Paul McGuinness, has failed to grasp the opportunities that this new business model offers, and has made it clear that the old model of music corporations telling musicians what to do is the preferred method and that ISPs should co-operate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting file sharing

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  • OneSalient

    Amount of money U2 gives to charity = X. Amount of money saved by music listeners if U2 freed their music = Y. X < Y.

    April 2008

  • KimMonko

    I think they need money for charitable activity

    April 2008

  • s_e_a

    U2 music is like a Bible, it should be avalible for all!

    April 2008

  • OneSalient

    Please read The future of recorded music - from Xiph above.

    April 2008

  • OneSalient

    Wow. Just as I begin to close the group we have a new member.

    März 2008

  • OneSalient

    I think Bono and the boys should chat with Trent Reznor about his business model.

    März 2008

  • OneSalient

    Quotes are from U2's manager, Paul McGuinness: http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i062b16e707aa99916c212e660cbffd3e

    März 2008

  • OneSalient

    (Steve Jobs) probably doesn't realize it but the collapse of the old financial model for recorded music will also mean the end of the songwriter. We've been used to bands who wrote their own material since the Beatles, but the mechanical royalties that sustain songwriters are drying up. Labels and artists, songwriters and publishers, producers and musicians, everyone's a victim.

    März 2008

  • OneSalient

    Notwithstanding the promotional noise, even Radiohead's honesty box principle showed that if not constrained, the customer will steal music.

    März 2008

  • OneSalient

    Sadly, the recent innovative Radiohead release of a download priced on the honesty box principle seems to have backfired to some extent. It seems that the majority of downloads were through illegal P2P download services like BitTorrent and LimeWire, even though the album was available for nothing through the official band site.

    März 2008
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