U2: Radiohead 'Courageous,' but ISPs Unfairly Profit from P2P
Date : 2008 06 30 Category : Web News
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Bono responds to recent comments by Paul McGuiness, their band manager, in which he said Radiohead's "In Rainbows " plan "backfired" and that ISPs are unfairly profiting from illegal file-sharing.
The UK's New Musical Express (NME), a popular music magazine published weekly since March 1952, has received a letter from U2's frontman Bono that reportedly comments on recent statements by their band manager, Paul McGuiness.
The first statement concerns McGuiness's criticism of Radiohead's pay-what-you-like approach that allowed fans to do just that to download a copy of their recent album "In Rainbows."
"We should all be aware that Radiohead's honesty box release of their album to some extent backfired," he McGuiness said a few weeks ago in an interview with BBC's 6 Music. "Even though it was available on their own website for no money at all, if that was what you preferred to pay - 60 to 70 per cent of the people who downloaded the record stole it anyway even though it was available for free.