U2 Band Manager: Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' Experiment 'Backfired'
Date : 2008 06 11 Category : Web News
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Fresh from trashing Silicon Valley's "liberal hippy values" and extolling the need for ISPs and record labels to forge a "commercial partnership," Paul McGuiness now criticizes Radiohead for daring to think outside the box.
It's impossible to find fault with U2 or frontman Bono considering all his charitable work and tireless efforts for the debt relief of poverty stricken nations, but his manager, Paul McGuiness, sure is making waves among music fans these days.
Late last week I reported how he gave a speech at a Music Matters confab in Hong Kong criticizing ISPs around the globe for not doing more to combat the flow of copyrighted material on their networks.
"One way or another, ISPs and mobile operators are the business partners of the future for the recorded music business – but they are going to have to share the money in a way that reflects what music is doing for their business," he said.
ISPs should have a ".