U2 manager calls Safe Harbor a “Thieves’ Charter”  At the Midem
music industry conference, U2 manager Paul McGuiness calls on
the …  Paul McGuinness, U2 manager, took the stage at the Midem
music industry conference in Cannes yesterday to back the
IFPI party line: it's time to take the fight over file-swapping
to the ISPs. McGuinness railed against those companies that have
"built multibillion-dollar industries on the back of our content
without paying for it."  McGuinness wants to stop going after
individual file-swappers and go right to the industry that makes
file-swapping possible: ISPs. He hopes to shift the "moral
pressure" to Internet providers and "shame them into wanting to
help us." He also thinks that most technology gurus are
countercultural hippies, Deadheads, and Abbie Hoffman disciples
(Steal This Book is mentioned as particularly pernicious
influence). How else to explain the fact the tech companies
don't want to help the music business more?  Safe harbors,
Thieves' Charters  It turns out that