U2 manager: Ad-supported music is beneath musicians
Ars technica writes about U2's manager comment on social music issues:
Music Matters 2008 has been going on in Hong Kong this week, offering the music business the chance to "plug into Asia." One of the featured speakers was the manager of U2, Paul McGuiness, who used the opportunity to blast Internet service providers for the harm they've done to the music business. McGuiness called on ISPs to "embrace the future," but his speech made it clear that his vision of the future includes at least two things that the ISPs are unlikely to have any interest in: playing traffic cop, and handing revenues over to the music business.