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- thesmartpenguin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+56About time companies began being a part of innovation as opposed to slowing it.
- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -5/+35OK, make sure you don't do business with any of the following companies that are in the Disney family. This list includes Miramax, who funded the production of Fahrenheit 9/11. Seriously? Get real. People who get their opinions from movies are beyond help.
* Walt Disney Pictures
* Touchstone Pictures
* Hollywood Pictures
* Miramax Films
* Buena Vista Music Group
* Walt Disney Records
* Mammoth Records
* Lyric Street Records
* Hollywood Records
* Walt Disney Feature Animation
* Walt Disney Television Animation
* DisneyToon Studios
* Pixar Animation Studios
* Walt Disney Television
* Touchstone Television
* ABC Entertainment
* ABC Television Network
* Buena Vista Television
* ESPN
* SOAPnet
* Lifetime
* Disney Publishing Worldwide
* Disney Store
* Jim Henson's Muppets
* Buena Vista Games - duke_nate, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Took the words right out of my mouth.
well, mine was closer to.... About Damn Time! - masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27I vote we stop trying to blame everyone for everything. There is no one man at fault for 9/11.
You could say that it was the terrorists fault for planning it. Or maybe it was Ronald Reagan's fault for funding Osama Bin Laden. Or you could say that it was Sr. Bush's fault for stirring up conflict in the middle-east. Or Clinton's fault for cutting intelligence and not killing Bin Laden when he could have. Or Bush's fault for just about every damn thing under the sun that's happened since 2000. Heck, you could say that it's the CIA's fault for not being creative enough when they had less funding and they consequently let their intelligence quality slip. Or perhaps it was the UK and the MI6's fault for sharing out-dated intelligence with the U.S. and its allies. And to boot, it was the fault of the FBI because they didn't act on the kind of threat that they had seen hundreds of, all of which had never been gone through with.
How about we stop blaming people, forget about whatever the hell screwed up, and start putting our resources on how to fix problems, as opposed to focusing our resources on figuring out who should get a harder political slap on the wrist? - HoboMaster, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20When I find one that doesn't do those things, I'll support it.
Businesses are like politicians, they twist the truth to fit their agenda. - ArcticCelt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Bravo! [Golf Clap]...
Only took them 10 years to get it (slightly slower than a severe retarded trisomic) but they got it! Now lets watch for another 10 years to see if they gona get that people don't like to buy crippled ***** DRM infested material. - Slagged, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I've been watching episodes of Jericho on CBS's web site. (The timeslot on TV interferes with my domination of Rebel and Seperatist forces.) The commercials get streamed too but who cares? The convienience is awesome and the episode is posted online right after it airs on network TV.
- Slagged, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Actually, they are stating that they need to view piracy as a business model to be competed with. Not embraced.
- Novagenesis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8It -was- part of the business model centuries ago. In the time of Shakespeare, playwrights only had a job if they kept writing, and fast...once someone saw your play, they replicated it...and you know what? It instilled excellence!
Everyone is so convinced that piracy is -wrong- just because it's illegal. We have free sites online with higher costs than that top-hit computer game that's being pirated to about 10% of its audience, while the other 90% pays over 10,000% of the physical production costs, to make up for an intellectual research cost that's often turned over ON the week of release.
I, for one, generally don't pirate, mostly because I value my freedom and money...I for one would be honored if my (less impressive) software were pirated by some, and purchased by others.
If I -did- choose to pirate, say, the new Tool cd (the case is so cool, it's worth the money to buy, btw), I would feel no guilt..why? I've been to THREE Tool concerts this tour, and am going to at least one more when they come back around. I have singlehandedly put >$200 into this album.
Face it, not only is piracy a successful business model, but it's one that other companies have no problem competing with...they just know they have JUST enough legal leverage, especially now with the DMCA, to attempt to crush it.
Nobody EVER fails to pull a profit off an intellectual copyright before piracy takes over. Intellectual copyrights were meant for making some profit, NOT for an intellectual monopoly.
Mickey Mouse loves you, happy birthday to you... let go already, with this insanity. - vypergts, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Wasn't Pirates of the Carribean a Disney movie?
- williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Recorded and mass-reproduced performances are about a 100 year old technology. The business model of making money off that technology didn't exist before that.
If the Internet makes it impossible to make money off publishing recorded performances, then maybe the business model is obsolete. Bug, meet windshield. - Nocturnal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I agree wholeheartedly and am ecstatic that things are finally taking a turn for the better. I just hope that other companies can realize that it's 1) a never ending battle and 2) if they thought out of the box, perhaps they too could capitalize on piracy or pirates.
- Kazrog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It has been proven, however, that SpongeBob SquarePants is at fault for the war in Iraq.
- LiquidPenguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Just a thought, doesn't TiVo do that already?
But I digress. I would rather have a model where the TV and/or movie follows me everywhere I go. If I'm flying in an airplane, and I happen to think the in-flight movie sucks, I'd like to access my entire movie/show library and watch it instead. I can kind of do this already with my laptop, but there are the obvious problems of carrying around all those DVD's, HDD space, battery life, etc. Or if I'm driving down the highway and my step daughter wants to watch a particular 101 Dalmations, I don't want to have to dig through hundreds of DVD's until I find the right one. I've got a nice big HDD in the car too, but again, it comes right back to space, and this time infrastructure.
I'm not interested in a "subscription" based model save for actual access (ie pay a small fee to access my account on the airplane). Point is, I want to access my media whenever, however, and wherever I want. We've got music covered with the iPod and its ilk. We've got iPod docking stations in the house and in all the cars. Take the iPod, plug it in, and your entire music collection is at your fingertips. - mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3there are less commercials too...
- qwame, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Did hell just freeze over?
- glock22ownr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I dunno, maybe... but the Devil probably has some shrinkage going...
- o0joshua0o, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There is a similar situation in the marketing of sports drinks. Companies have to compete with a product that is both free and easily available (i.e. water). The sports drinks marketers usually compete by trying to position their products as more effective than water, but it looks like the digital media producers will compete by positioning their products as easier to use and less risky than pirating.
- flipside3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's nice that they're starting to get it. Once they understand that if you offer more value than the "pirates" can provide for the price, you'll win. Its the same with DVDs, keep the price low and offer extras.
I'm waiting for the day that I can subscribe to a TV show, just like I do for diggnation. Offer reasonable quality (480p would be nice) and stick in a few commercials (but keep them short please). I'd love to go to the Lost website, subscribe, and watch at my leisure... on my Apple iTV perhaps... - scheper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2One battle does not a war win.
I doubt the MPAA/RIAA will be pleased with this. - lessew, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4They didn't say piracy is part of THEIR business model, just that it is A business model, and a model which is one they are obliged to compete with.
- mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1www.cbs.com/intertube/
overdrive.mtv.com
the other networks have similar sites... - reeder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, rated ARRRRRRR!!!!
Sorry, I had to.... - Backwards2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Anne Sweeney actually said that a month ago, and it got good press coverage then. But it is good to see it resurrected. The idea that big media companies "just don't get it" is an absurb stereotype. You might not like the way the deal with it, but they absolutely do 'get it.'
- happyMac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The Pacifier, a Disney movie that came out last year, has a pirated version of the movie 'Ghost' as a fairly central part of the plot line for part of the film. It was shocking to see a pirated movie in a Disney film and even more shocking that there wasn't any anti-piracy propaganda around the disk and instead it was treated as a normal thing for a suburban family to possess.
- tucsonwc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr!
- Nocturnal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@Slagged
Slagged has armbarred the correct. If Disney can do this, other companies can too. They are just setting the road work so to speak in place so that hopefully other companies will follow. I don't think this message is negative but rather a positive spin on a negative subject. - morbus24, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0
free everything for all free people! - RonaldLewis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This is a good start to tossing aside "old school" thought in business. It's necessary for survival -- and they're now realizing this. The Internet has -- and will continue to -- change everything.
- CoNGreen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1We understand piracy now as a business model
10/8 years after the fact... and now they understand.
thats ***** pathetic.
Lets all go dip down. - Modulo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1They did it! The war is over! The war is over!! ... all of a sudden I'm feeling a little .. like maybe it's too early to be celebrating .. and also a little late for a Matrix Revolutions.. reference.. so .. yeah. Still.. a very encouraging thing to hear.
- GeneralFailure0, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Even if they plan on using what piracy there is for their own benefit, is it really a good idea to issue this kind of statement? If they say piracy is part of their business model, doesn't that in turn justify piracy, even encourage it?
*Bittorrents Bambi 2* Hellz yeah. - SuperSunny, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I'm sure they'll look into better alternatives than pirating something. Maybe rewards or something.
- cmiller1, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Yarr me mateys, let's have a look at them quarterly reports and we'll see if we can't do something about this before those landlubbers the shareholders get here! ARRRR!
- jonathono2000, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I agree and and I can't believe Hobomaster below seems to think that if you can't win why try. It's amazing how people seem to forget about the horrible things a company/government they previously despised did when it produces a widget or makes policy that now appeals to them.
Sheep. - BoogerRed, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2This is one thing that just boggles my mind. Maybe I'm in my own minority. Many times I am. As far as the Path to 911 movie goes, DAMN can anyone who makes this claim comprehend that this was a movie? Are all movies based on reality? Snakes on a Plane? Was that real? No matter who is to blame for what happened on 9/11 the fact remains that the way it's been handled since then has been nothing short of an embarrassment on all levels. A movie though is a movie. Quit confusing it with reality.
- pagit, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3But Capt. Jack Sparrow lives though it looks like the kracken got him.
There will allways be pirates and people against piracy. - mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1maybe getting ur dick sucked by cinderella or snow white....
- chambana, on 10/12/2007, -15/+1Steve Jobs
- Mabu, on 10/12/2007, -42/+19After Disney funded that smear campaign called, "Path to 911" that tried to blame the 9/11 disaster on Clinton, I have no desire to give that multinational another red cent of my money. More people should boycott corporations who seek to rewrite history and insult peoples' intelligence.
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