In an article written for the New York Times, U2 frontman Bono said that internet service providers were essentially “reverse Robin-Hooding” by benefitting from the music industry’s lost revenue over music pirating.

“A decade’s worth of music file-sharing and swiping has made clear that the people it hurts are the creators…the people this reverse Robin Hooding benefits are rich service providers, whose swollen profits perfectly mirror the lost receipts of the music business.”

The article was originally intended as a call-to-arms for Hollywood to heed the warning from the music industry and not fall to the same pirating measures that have plagued physical music sales in the last decade. “The immutable laws of bandwidth tell us we’re just a few years away from being able to download an entire season of ’24′ in 24 seconds.”

Shockingly enough, Bono went on to suggest that China’s efforts to curb and monitor internet content and social networking were a positive move in the name of “fairness to creators and artists”. In a particularly controversial statement, the Irishman went on to discuss how the US’ “noble efforts to stop child pornography” and China’s “ignoble efforts to curb online dissent” as being proof that music and movie pirates could easily be brought to justice. Read more