SO BONO’S now put him­self at the fore­front of cor­por­ate whore­dom by advoc­at­ing Inter­net poli­cing as a way to stop file shar­ing. Appar­ently, Mr. I’m-Worth-About-$100,000,000 is wor­ried that he won’t be able to afford solid gold taps on one of his down­stairs bath­rooms and so wrote a New York Times edit­or­ial on the import­ance of track­ing net con­tent to see who’s down­load­ing what. Here’s his drivel:

Cau­tion! The only thing pro­tect­ing the movie and TV indus­tries from the fate that has befallen music and indeed the news­pa­per busi­ness is the size of the files. The immut­able laws of band­width tell us we’re […]