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- inactive, on 05/17/2009, -16/+428...and the Internet hates him as well. :)
- 7yler, on 05/17/2009, -10/+347if i were a shareholder of this company I'd be horrified by a statement like this coming from a man like that.
- ogletree, on 05/17/2009, -56/+335That is like Ford being mad that the Gov built highways. This guy needs to be ousted.
- Ommatidia, on 05/17/2009, -12/+272He's kind of right.
I do feel entitled to all content, for free, whenever I want it. And if you won't give me what I want, I'll just get it for free from somewhere else.
Unfortunately for him, whining like a little baby isn't going to do any good. He needs to forget about how things were back in the day (before the internet) and figure out how he can make it work for him and his company. - m0llusk, on 05/17/2009, -10/+233Whining about the past isn't going to bring back profits.
- GameEngineer, on 05/17/2009, -63/+252Everyone who runs a media content company feels exactly the same.
Not only has the Internet made stealing copyright owner's products and material trivially easier, it is getting easier every day with bigger harddrives and faster Net connections.
It is funny to see the Slashdot not even try to hide their hypocrisy over copyright infringement and intellectual property.
When it comes to copyright infringement issues with open source licences the open source/Slashdot crowd is ready and eager to go straight to Defcon 1 and eager to go nuclear on anyone who would dare to violate a holder's copyright.
But when it comes to music and movies that they all want for free, suddenly copyright and intellectual property mean absolutely nothing. - mark076h, on 05/17/2009, -12/+191"I'm a guy who doesn't see anything good having come from the Internet"
-Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton - Jacobus77, on 05/17/2009, -9/+175In the South, this is the kind of guy we'd probably call an "Idjit".
When phonograph records were first played on the radio, the recording industry execs freaked just exactly the same way. A few years later, it was so obvious even to them that airtime was SELLING more records that they were bribing deejays to play their promos (a/k/a "payola"). Internet file sharing builds interest, just like radio play!
Entertainment execs have jobs today because radio and the Net have kept knowledge and interest in what they do alive.
I have bought more CDs of music I first found on the Net than from any other source. - seltaeb4, on 05/17/2009, -3/+167"One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it, and then you own it?"
—Trent Reznor - DrCyclops, on 05/17/2009, -2/+142A statement that belongs alongside the following gem:
"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." - Jack Valenti, president of the MPAA, 1982 - inactive, on 05/17/2009, -8/+134We're not responsible for your failed business model, Suit.
- schleufer, on 05/17/2009, -11/+118Hi, I'm the Internet. I hate you too, Sony.
signed,
The Internet - a0me, on 05/17/2009, -1/+93He's basically admitting that they haven't been able to leverage the power of the Internet for the last 15 years, and they still have no clue what they should do about it.
- smoothmann, on 05/17/2009, -5/+94He's just mad because his "holy grail" of blu-rays suck in sales.
Dumbass lower your prices or we're forced to continue downloading them off the internet.
Well, that wont matter either - kanojo1969, on 05/17/2009, -1/+86A lot of these guys have the same problem; their real skills are in cunning, politics, and manipulation of people in order to get themselves huge contracts running companies like this.
They don't really have any skills in innovating or figuring out how to make the most of something new. They wanted these high-paying jobs because the business model was basically legalised robbery and had an almost captive market. Their only competition was similarly clueless idiots reading from the same playbook.
Guys like this *hate* a real marketplace with competition. They are the first to secretly organise cartels to avoid any chance of having to actually compete.
Now they find that someone's changed the rules and they have literally *no clue* how it all works. I'd be bitter and angry as well.
What I find comforting is the knowledge that none of this matters. The communications revolution is in full swing and these media empires are like child's sandcastles against a tsunami.
Cry all you want, it won't make a lick of difference. - Khast, on 05/17/2009, -6/+86Speaking of which, does anyone know where I can find a torrent for a new Sony or Sharp LCD TV...there isn't any electronics stores open this late at night. I would like to try before I buy. ;) /s
- seanovan, on 05/17/2009, -6/+76Good morning, it's the 21st century, this is you wake up call.
- darkwing81, on 05/17/2009, -2/+71translation: No new technology should be introduced to the public without a build in way for us to make ridiculous amounts of money from it.
- LucasHenderson, on 05/17/2009, -2/+55The internet has changed the way the great majority of consumers think, and it has changed the way the market works. Live with it.
- inkswamp, on 05/17/2009, -2/+51All the Internet changed was the excuse some companies have for overcharging customers to begin with. All that expensive marketing done by companies just like Sony to justify a $25+ price on a music CD went straight down the ***** overnight, and now they can't come up with good enough reasons to justify screwing consumers over anymore. It's a course correction, and a long overdue one at that. Amazingly, the entertainment industry seems collectively determined to resist it. It's as if they've spent so much time wallowing in their own greedy lies that they've begun to believe it all themselves.
Piracy has always existed and artists have thrived despite that. It gets a little tiresome hearing that old red herring brought out every time some CEO can't afford a new pool at one of his houses. - cawpin, on 05/17/2009, -8/+54Um, exactly, it wouldn't make sense. Just like this guy being mad about the internet doesn't make sense.
- Beautyon, on 05/17/2009, -0/+44Jack Valenti is dead. And so are his ideas. Michael Lynton just doesn't know the latter part yet.
- ChuckDees, on 05/17/2009, -1/+42I'm honestly surprised that artists are just know figuring this out.
The punk community has know this for decades. - inactive, on 05/17/2009, -0/+41And he gets paid real money for this?
- zeptobyte, on 05/17/2009, -2/+42It's quite indicative of how out-of-touch with the general populace this man is that his example involves Madison Avenue..
- jammrk, on 05/17/2009, -6/+38There is a big difference between open-source, which is all about giving users freedom to control the software that runs on their systems. Compared to companies like sony's draconian use of copyright laws, which is about restricting user freedom. Lets not forget sony is the same company that thought it was ok to install a root kit on systems(http://news.cnet.com/Sony-settles-rootkit-class-ac ... So this seems a little hypocritical to me.
- one504, on 05/17/2009, -8/+39I just reached through his monitor and snatched-up his soul.
- abhiroop, on 05/17/2009, -12/+42I totally agree! Well said.
I think the inherent problem is that there are a few intelligent vocal that support the idea of "freedom". Whether this is completely open source or whether digital entertainment should be free. They have valid points, along the lines of "no one loses money", and "it helps spread the word", etc. Unfortunately much of the tech crowd have these slogans at the back of their mind whenever they pirate music. They say to themselves, "hey no-one is getting hurt". Unfortunately, it has become such a norm that it is almost conceived as a "right" belonging to every user of the internet. - shadowmoose, on 05/17/2009, -1/+31Well the internet isn't going anywhere so looks like he's SOL.
- 22justin, on 05/17/2009, -3/+33add to that readers of The Register
- Blue_Eon, on 05/17/2009, -1/+31It's not that it gives us an avenue through which we can get music for free, it gives us choice, and that's what they really hate. Sure, that choice is clear cut because it's free, but it's still a choice adjunct to the old way of doing things.
There will always be piracy and sure, if you're not compensating the creators for their work, it's wrong, but it's like stealing money from mobsters. For decades, the MPAA and RIAA have swindled us, their artists, and have manipulated the market in their favor. I hardly feel sorry for them at this point, and neither should any of you. They were treating us like criminals even before the internet was what it is today when they were crying about VCRs and cassette recorders.
As I said before, there will always be piracy, so just ignore that and actually pay attention to the real elephant in the room: the people who actually still want to support you and buy your products. Give them an incentive to still buy from you as opposed to getting it through piracy. Quit instituting DRM, quit ignoring Fair Use, and give us what we want at a fair price and let us feel like we own it.
So, no, I don't feel sorry for them because they can't stand that we, the consumers, have power now and can dictate the market. - thatdouch, on 05/17/2009, -0/+29The sad thing is, he ain't
- Rub3do, on 05/17/2009, -0/+28Its called visionary leadership, except your leader is blind.
- a3leggedmidgit, on 05/17/2009, -10/+38I can't believe no one has said it yet......
porn? - inactive, on 05/17/2009, -8/+35Okay.... I think we all read that part...
- Beautyon, on 05/17/2009, -4/+30CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! That is the sound of one of the modern day Buggy Whip sellers in his death throes. Now you die, for great justice. And the world:
http://www.amazon.com/Against-Intellectual-Monopol ...
Will be a much better place for it. - teddylj, on 05/17/2009, -16/+42hahaha oh yeah? "Everyone" who runs a media content company feels the same? Really?
I hope these idiots continue to lose money and continue their fall into irrelevance. New media will build cities in their hollowed-out corpses, and one day we'll wonder how anyone could have been so stupid. - Oea420, on 05/17/2009, -1/+26Can you imagine these companies once the personal nanobot materializer comes around?
LF Torrent schematics for 60in SONY SSSHD TV
Private business will emp the world, lol - seltaeb4, on 05/17/2009, -7/+31These guys do nothing but profit from the blood and sweat of artists. They have absolutely no skill in life, and without the exploitation of other's work, they would starve.
They sense their end coming. They will no longer be able to have their coke and call-girl binges paid for.
Soon, they will all be Amway salesmen. - icndvl, on 05/17/2009, -5/+28Anyone know the effect that speech had on Sony's stock?
- inactive, on 05/17/2009, -0/+22its simple. Japan controls the Hardware business and the Americans control the Media part.
- teddylj, on 05/17/2009, -3/+24That would make plenty of sense, acidshred, if the words of the Sony CEO applied to everyone across the spectrum of media. I'm not talking about some theoretical cashflow that no one has figured out how to tap (ala Twitter), I'm talking about a multibillion dollar industry that many have tapped into already. Dinosaurs like Sony haven't figured it out yet, others like Apple have.
You probably think that if the Detroit automakers fail, there is a serious possibility of us having no choice but to ride bicycles in the future. This is because you are a moron. There are alternatives, and they are competing very well versus "free". - trotc, on 05/17/2009, -4/+25What Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton is trying to say:
"New technology is stupid, what happened to the good old days when people suffered and life was worse off back then in comparison to the good stuff now. I hate it when things get better." - life036, on 05/17/2009, -0/+21***** it, it's all overproduced soulless voicebox radio ***** anyway. I'm glad the real independent artists actually have a fighting chance now.
- DrSnugglebunny, on 05/17/2009, -1/+21You might as well hate the sky. Good luck with that.
- TheMachine1, on 05/17/2009, -1/+21Richard Branson said an artist can now do better without a record company's support.
- inactive, on 05/17/2009, -4/+23I think his career has just imploded.
- weeFred, on 05/17/2009, -1/+20The reason people started copying cds and downloading mp3s was because at that time music companies were massively ripping everyone off. I remember in 98/99 cds were £12 - 15. Artists were making a tiny percentage of profit of each cd and record companies were taking the rest. This is why pirating took off on large scale, people saw how cheap it was to actually copy music and said "***** paying record companies £15 for something they make for about 50p". If record companies weren't ***** everyone over to such a ridiculous degree then I don't think pirating music would be as bad as it is today.
- 68024, on 05/17/2009, -1/+19A new world also needs new rules. The old rules clearly don't work on the internet. Copyright law needs to be overhauled. We're essentially working with 19th century rules on a 21st century system.
- seltaeb4, on 05/17/2009, -2/+20"you know what sucks, sony makes the best ear buds and headphones you can find in walmart."
the best *anything* you find in walmart is still *****. -
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