Article: Elton calls for internet blackout

Seth Brundle

http://www.breakingnews.ie/entertainment/mhcwcwaugbau/

Elton calls for internet blackout
04/08/2007 - 17:39:19

Elton John is convinced the only way to save music is to shut the internet down.

The British pop superstar fears there's "too much technology available" and claims that it is starving musical creativity.

"I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut the whole Internet down for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span," he said.

"I'm sure, as far as music goes, it would be much more interesting than it is today."

Elton looks forward to a musical revolution - from a new punk.

"We need something like jazz or hip-hop or punk to come along and shake things up… I think the disenchantment of this moment has got to come out," he said.

"I hope whatever it produces will be even fiercer than punk. We need something to do that - and we need it quickly."

Idiot!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

four eyed moron

Victor

How about we shut down TV and music for 5 years and see where the internet is going....

Ruu_Old

Hmm yes Elton, lets shutdown the internet where your fans go to buy tickets from your website at outrageous prices. Bravo sir, bra-****ing-vo.:)

aidan_walsh

Guess that means he'll be taking all his albums off iTunes again so?

Dave!

Yeah, shut down the best possible medium for propagating the experimental, unusual, unpopular music he's seeking. F*cking moron.

Photi

How would one go about shutting down the internet?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

take away all the porn

Orange69

Man thats the dumbest thing i have ever heard!

Lets "turn off" possibly the most important invention in human history! Even the idea of turning it off (like there is a switch somewhere) is ludicrous!

Hal1

Photi wrote:

How would one go about shutting down the internet?

They have a giant switch in some military silo type thing .

Nailz

Not even the Pope would have the power to shut down the internet, never mind Elton Fcuking John. Moron!

Orange69

Photi wrote:

How would one go about shutting down the internet?

Turn off all the root name servers..

From wikipedia..

If all root name serves would stop answering queries

In that hypothetical case the Internet will not suddenly grind to a halt. If absolutely nothing is done to correct the situation every hour about 2% of all queries will not be answered, 2% at the end of the first hour, 4% at the end of the second hour and so forth until 48h after the root name servers stop answering queries no DNS names can be resolved anymore.

unkel

Let's shutdown Elton's pacemaker for 5 years

Rhyme

Orange69 wrote:

like there is a switch somewhere

How did you know... uh... i mean, yeah, ha ha.

Karoma

unkel wrote:

Let's shutdown Elton's pacemaker for 5 years

That'd improve the quality of music on the shelves...


One middle-aged idiot banging out crap on a keyboard wants the Interwebulator shut down -v- a brazilian middle-aged idiots banging out crap on keyboards that want porn & free music readily available... which will win, I wonder?

Orange69

I guess the solution would be to unplug the network cable from Elton's machine and just pretend that we switched off the internet?

That would keep everyone happy.. Elton could have his musical revolution and we would have one less imbecile on the net.. win win!

Dave!

Dya think Elton wants this because the internet is hindering his own musical ability? He wants to write new and interesting songs, but he can't help chatting on IRC and he's constantly being distracted by message boards like boards..........

Naos

DaveMcG wrote:

Yeah, shut down the best possible medium for propagating the experimental, unusual, unpopular music he's seeking. F*cking moron.

My head is thumping. The above quote is exactly what I wanted to say, only I would have put it in a more crude sentence.

Dave!

Mear wrote:

My head is thumping. The above quote is exactly what I wanted to say, only I would have put it in a more crude sentence.

lol, how would you have put it?

leakd

Orange69 wrote:

Turn off all the root name servers..

From wikipedia..

If all root name serves would stop answering queries

In that hypothetical case the Internet will not suddenly grind to a halt. If absolutely nothing is done to correct the situation every hour about 2% of all queries will not be answered, 2% at the end of the first hour, 4% at the end of the second hour and so forth until 48h after the root name servers stop answering queries no DNS names can be resolved anymore.

That would still not "turn off" the Internet... You could still access the websites by entering their IP addresses, you don't need any DNS servers for that.

David Michael

Karoma wrote:

One middle-aged idiot banging out crap on a keyboard wants the Interwebulator shut down -v- a brazilian middle-aged idiots banging out crap on keyboards that want porn & free music readily available... which will win, I wonder?

Better them banging out that stuff that the current middle age rock/actor thing of banging kids.

MooseJam

does elton give it or take it, does anybody know ?

Old man doesn't understand technology.

Next please.

Orange69

leakd wrote:

That would still not "turn off" the Internet... You could still access the websites by entering their IP addresses, you don't need any DNS servers for that.

It would for the general user.. but "hackers" like yourself could still find your way around using only ip addresses :rolleyes:

ixoy

How about we remove all "influence" of Elton from our lives by:

• removing every single album/single of his from our shelves and blasting into molten mess in a vicious furnace
• burning every magazine and book to mention him
• deleting all mention of him from all the servers/hard drives in the world (including, thus, this thread)
• mind-wiping six billion people of all traces of him
• re-possessing his house and impounding his fortune
• .. and dropping his screaming, costumed, hair-transplanted self into the heart of a struggling third world nation?

That way he can create a new musical revolution by re-inventing himself and bringing a whole new wave of music, unburned by his previous legacy and thus prove to us his amazing talent. Also, struggling in a poverty-stricken land with poor telecommunications infrastructure, will mean that his Luddite self will not be warped by the machinations and downright evilness of the Interweb. Pure deprivation of all that he knows will enable him to create musical melodies so good that they form an aural apotheosis, as if God Himself spoke through him.

.. Or maybe the world will have moved on and new artists will have used this great new tool to distribute their works and reach an audience they never would have seen otherwise.

Is he on for the challenge...

Hagar

Wasn't the Internet started by the Military with the sole purpose of creating a distributed information exchange system that couldn't be shut down?

Haven't you got enough money to keep you in stupid glasses and lube for the rest of your life? Greedy fat bastard.

Kevster

Orange69 wrote:

Man thats the dumbest thing i have ever heard!

Lets "turn off" possibly the most important invention in human history! Even the idea of turning it off (like there is a switch somewhere) is ludicrous!

No, what you have just said is the dumbest thing I have TRULY heard for a long time. The "most important invention in human history", the Internet certainly is not. In fact, I feel that - despite Elton's lack of foresight - there is some substance to be gained from his comments.

Kevster

Hagar wrote:

Wasn't the Internet started by the Military with the sole purpose of creating a distributed information exchange system that couldn't be shut down?

It was started by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); a division of the US military. It's sole purpose was to allow a number of computers shared access to files.

Kevster

ixoy wrote:

How about we remove all "influence" of Elton from our lives by:

• removing every single album/single of his from our shelves and blasting into molten mess in a vicious furnace
• burning every magazine and book to mention him
• deleting all mention of him from all the servers/hard drives in the world (including, thus, this thread)
• mind-wiping six billion people of all traces of him
• re-possessing his house and impounding his fortune
• .. and dropping his screaming, costumed, hair-transplanted self into the heart of a struggling third world nation?

Give him a break. He has talent that I doubt any of ye have and he cannot handle the focus of the media on him. With so much pressure, i'm sure some of ye would crack too.

mike65

Steady on Elton's not all bad - he wrote Saturday Nights Alright For Fighting!

Mike.

Kevster

Kevster wrote:

It was started by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); a division of the US military. It's sole purpose was to allow a number of computers shared access to files.

And (hopefully) continue to work should there be a major incident, like USA being nuked for example...

Kevster

... ...right-on Mike! :rolleyes: There are some classics in his collection.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

How about we tell Elton John that he's gonna be the first musician to go into space. Send him up in an auto-piloted rocket on course for the sun. That'll teach him for being a gobs**te.

Deliverance

hypothetically and creatively the notion is valid. But things are the way they are. The new technology generation are slightly lost on the irony of the statement which only goes to show the trueness of the statement he made in the first place. Laughable really.

unkel

Hagar wrote:

Haven't you got enough money to keep you in stupid glasses and lube for the rest of your life? Greedy fat bastard.

Nearly p!ssing myself laughing

Capt'n Midnight

Maybe shutdown Warner Music Group, EMI, Sony BMG, and Universal Music Group for five years so we could get new music instead a flood of that "me too" crap with the ocasional gem.

PS. turning off DNS servers would be a brilliant idea, the rest of the world could ditch the US control of them. Seriously it's not like there aren't backups for this sort of thing.

Kevster

CaptainNegative wrote:

How about we tell Elton John that he's gonna be the first musician to go into space. Send him up in an auto-piloted rocket on course for the sun. That'll teach him for being a gobs**te.

No no, what would be humerous is if they sent YOU into space without a space-suit to monitor the stages of gradual depressurisation as you pass through the Earth's atmosphere into the void that is 'empty' space.

There'd be no good in sending you to the Sun, however, because you're so full of useless **** that it's better having you here so that we can laugh at you.

Jesus Wept

Lets shut Elton John down, if that is real name. :rolleyes:

McSandwich

Elton John should vent his fury at record companies and the likes of Simon Cowell who sign and drop 'acts' by the week. As a 'sir,' Elton would be better advised to use his influence to help his fellow musicians by encouraging record labels to invest more time in new talent - they must have given him his fair share way back then.. I wonder if he also campaigned against the cassette for similar reasons back in the '80s? ****ing Knob

unkel

The-Rigger wrote:

Lets shut Elton John down, if that is real name. :rolleyes:

His real name is Reginald Eejit iirc

McSandwich

unkel wrote:

His real name is Reginald Eejit iirc

Thought it was Regi-bald twat

Jesus Wept

Elton John wasn't much of an improvement.

Should of gone for something dynamic like:

Max Power

Or even Max Headroom

billy the squid

Nailz wrote:

Not even the Pope would have the power to shut down the internet, never mind Elton Fcuking John. Moron!

While I agree that the pope may not be able to shut down the internet, The chances of elton fcuking john, or the possibility that he has already fcuked john, already exists.

Personally I think he should lead by example and shut down his own website, take his albums off itunes, etc.

Oh, cancel charity concerts for five years, then let us see him find honest work.

ixoy

CaptainNegative wrote:

How about we tell Elton John that he's gonna be the first musician to go into space. Send him up in an auto-piloted rocket on course for the sun. That'll teach him for being a gobs**te.

Obviously in the cockpit they'll have "Rocket Man" blaring out too

billy the squid

Deleted User wrote:

And (hopefully) continue to work should there be a major incident, like USA being nuked for example...

It went tits up on September 11th, due to the amount of traffic on it.

McSandwich

billy the squid wrote:

It went tits up on September 11th, due to the amount of traffic on it.

Why, what happened?

[edit] sorry, just realised you meat THAT September 11th... little bit drunk.. [/edit]

Jesus Wept

billy the squid wrote:

While I agree that the pope may not be able to shut down the internet

He wouldn't be able to shut down an atari jaguar.

billy the squid

billy the squid wrote:

It went tits up on September 11th, due to the amount of traffic on it.

True, but if DARPAnet was used as originally designed the world wouldn't have been on it

IIRC the internet stayed up, but the news & email servers were swamped and some just gave up!!

Anyway Elton John is completely out of touch with modern life, If he had his way we would only be able to buy packaged music that has copy prevention built in via the music industry.

McSandwich

Nailz wrote:

Not even the Pope would have the power to shut down the internet, never mind Elton Fcuking John. Moron!

Last year Elton wanted to shut down the Pope..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6140710.stm

SimpleSam06

Washed-up has-been queen making "outrageous" statements in a vain effort to appear relevant to modern youth culture, and get people to notice him again. Publicity stunt tbh. And of course every poster in the thread so far has swallowed it.