The Guardian, reports the U2 manager as laying the blame for the death of the music industry at the doors of Silicon Valley.

Paul McGuinness, who has plotted the rise of the Irish group over 30 years, said technology gurus in Silicon Valley such as Apple’s Steve Jobs and Microsoft’s Bill Gates had profited from rampant online piracy without doing anything to stop it.

“I suggest we shift the focus of moral pressure away from the individual P2P [peer to peer] thief and on to the multibillion dollar industries that benefit from these tiny crimes,” he said.

Still the music industry has continually shot-itself-in-the-foot as far as the internet goes. Take the Internet radio website Pandora, that allows user to enter a song or artist that you enjoy Pandora then responds with songs the user might like, thus leading users on a road-of-discover into music and artists that otherwise they’d have been ignorant of. Sadly UK users now find this message.

We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.

Music industry madness.