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Great, here we go with the whole stupid throttling thing again! I though this was put to rest!

Jess
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the above is so accurate to how things could turn out. and it scares me greatly.

He's just jealous becoz everyone prefers Stereohead

HAHAHA!! nicely said

You seem to be a little confused. While Ed O'Brien is indeed guitarist in Radiohead, these statements are not related to Radiohead whatsoever and have everything to do with the Featured Artists Coalition, of which O'Brien is also a member.
This is not "Radiohead's opinion". Get your facts straight.

who cares? radiohead? schmadiohead? peoples republic of anti-piracy? i am hoping it will be just one of the hundreds of bs claims people have made in relation to file sharing (and to think "the man" taught me it was good to share!). even the isp's in my country seem to ignore the copyright shite, which i am very glad about.

Here's an idea....keep playing the guiter you English pisser. You are no one. You wouldnt even have a frigin band if it wasnt for the internet.

RADIOHEAD IS BAD

No Radiohead is one of the few bands that are actually good. Get your facts straight jack. Radiohead let me download one of what I think was one of their best albums for free. I actually gave them $20 anyway. Yes I liked the album that much.

He also also said in the video that he was not worried about getting money it was and is the little guys that he was standing up for.

I download my fair share of music, but you know what? I actually PAY for some of it too. I know that's a forign concept for you kiddies out there but not everything should be for free. People still need to make a living.

When it come to music sharing, we need to continue to support bands like Radiohead not curse at them. They seem to be one of the few bands that do seem to actually "get it." Too bad most people don't.

You might want to watch the video again.
He didn't vote for a general throttling of bandwith. He is talking about a policy that is lately discussed by some European countries to cut internet connection for filesharers after a couple of warning letters. So rather than cutting their internet they would get their bandwith reduced and therefore will stay in the system.

The guilty are still based on the factor that a record company is accusing somebody of sharing or downloading illegally. There is still no valid court system in place that is actually convicting people properly, beyond the assumed guilty by accusation and the rest shall follow on applying appropriate penalties, as the state decides. There is a system, and a consequence to doing things illegally and why some drummer or singer in a recording studio think they can solve these problems on an ad-hoc interview, then they are properly mistaken. I find it hard to see the method of transport the sole benefit to the people that are found guilty of these crimes as punishment. Do thieves get their licenses revoked, do drug growers get their UPS account closed down? Shut the f up an sing and dance and entertain and stop complaining when people are going about their lives and their daily mis-demeanors because it's doing you and your sponsor out of a few cents here and there. The file sharers are the biggest promoters and purchasers of your product so be careful who you shut down.

Capping the technology has never worked, and will never work. His point of view echos the industry's old style of thinking.

I don't believe he so altruistic that he's only concerned with emerging artists ... I think he's acting as a mouthpiece for other interests.

> A world with bandwidth limits will result in your precious internet looking more like the image below and you do not want that.

WTF? That image has *nothing* to do with bandwidth limits. The image does reflect what a non-network neutrality internet could look like. I think your knowledge of the internet is very confused.

Uh... I'd download that shit over dialup if I wanted it. Speed limitations aren't going to prevent anything, you may just want to get a real job and stop making music if you're going to be a baby.

Exactly. If every artist chose to act on your philosophy, everyone would stop making music and get a real job. Hence, why piracy hurts the artists and forces the lesser known ones to quit the business.

Rich dude advocates restricting use of public resource by the non-rich in order to preserve his revenue stream. What a big fucking surprise.