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From: siljaline on 5 Jan 2010 18:20 <preamble> TalkTalk has branded U2 ** windbag Bono's *** intervention in the debate over illegal filesharing "outrageous", after he said efforts to block child pornography showed ISPs should be doing more to protect intellectual property. As part of his latest execrable, relentlessly pretentious sermon* for the New York Times' op-ed section, Bono accused internet firms of profiting from copyright infringement** and refusing to take technical measures against it. </preamble> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/05/bono_talktalk/> Silj -- "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from -- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time." - Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_
From: siljaline on 5 Jan 2010 18:37 Also: "Bono Puts Policing Piracy Into His Next Decade Top 10" <http://torrentfreak.com/bono-puts-policing-piracy-into-his-next-decade-top-10-100103/> Ny Times Bono-Bit <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/opinion/03bono.html?pagewanted=1> Silj -- "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from -- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time." - Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_
From: Cronos on 5 Jan 2010 23:25 siljaline wrote: > <preamble> > TalkTalk has branded U2 ** windbag Bono's *** intervention in the debate over illegal filesharing "outrageous", after he said efforts to block child pornography showed ISPs should be doing more to protect intellectual property. > > As part of his latest execrable, relentlessly pretentious sermon* for the New York Times' op-ed section, Bono accused internet firms of profiting from copyright infringement** and refusing to take technical measures against it. > </preamble> > > <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/05/bono_talktalk/> > > Silj > Bono has been irrelevant for a long time now so most people just ignore his rants.
From: siljaline on 6 Jan 2010 00:32
Cronos wrote: > Bono has been irrelevant for a long time now so most people just ignore > his rants. I know that, thanks for the reminder, I was just ranting. Silj -- "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from -- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time." - Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_ |