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Groove Armada: Fighting File-Sharing is 'Utterly Futile'

By soulxtc

Comments come as it announced details of a file-sharing model the band has launched in partnership with Bacardi to promote their new EP. Groove Armada's Andy Cato isn't pulling any punches when it comes to his thoughts on P2P and file-sharing, which he observes has now become so mainstream that it's way beyond anybody's control or best efforts to stop. "It's utterly futile to try and stop people, just like it was stopping people creating mix tapes once they had two decks and a tape recorder," said Cato. "It'll just waste a lot of time and hot air, and they'll end up looking like a government that has no idea what's going on on the street." Cato's comments come as Groove Armada announced details of a file-sharing model called Bacardi B-Live Share the band has launched in partnership with Bacardi to promote their new EP.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on January 22, 2009 (boomark / email).