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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: eagl on May 17, 2009, 11:19:36 AM
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On Pandora’s box, buggy whips, and big pots of money with which to sue people…
We know who the internet’s biggest crybaby is, finally. It’s Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton. Echoing the lamentations of buggy whip makers when decrying the despicable horseless carriages, Lynton has this to say about the internet:
http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/memo-pad-uniqlo-nabs-deyn-bad-internet-classic-martha-2136751?src=rss/recentstories/20090515#/article/media-news/fashion-memopad/memo-pad-uniqlo-nabs-deyn-bad-internet-classic-martha-2136751?page=2
Sorry about the gross URL… Here’s a tinyurl version: http://tinyurl.com/odxjuq
“I’m a guy who doesn’t see anything good having come from the Internet,” said Sony Pictures Entertainment chief executive officer Michael Lynton. “Period.”
Further, it’s all OUR fault.
“Lynton wasn’t just trying for a laugh: He complained the Internet has “created this notion that anyone can have whatever they want at any given time. It’s as if the stores on Madison Avenue were open 24 hours a day. They feel entitled. They say, ‘Give it to me now,’ and if you don’t give it to them for free, they’ll steal it.”
You can just TASTE his angst, his personal demons. His hatred for the things his customers crave oozes from every pore, flavors his every word. The worst part of course is that this particular buggy whip maker has a HUGE pot of money to both sue his customers, and attempt to buy enough influence to make the bad bad internet go away, to take it away from the very people who created it. And that’s the thing – he does not understand that the content his company creates is merely one flavor of candy available in the huge candy store called the internet. To abuse the analogy, his company did not create the internet any more than the guy who puts red food coloring into skittles built the candy store, yet he’s trying to shut down the world’s biggest candy store because although he makes billions of dollars selling those red skittles, some kids insist on grabbing a few handfuls without paying (the lament of market street vendors for centuries, but he doesn’t see that either).
His answer is of course to shut it all down, make the customers come to him on his own terms. I don’t think he understands what he’s asking for. I’ve bought more media of various types in the last year than I ever did in all the years before the internet, and not one bit of it was from a physical store. I’m never again going to drive across town to buy a CD or a movie. Not gonna happen.
Since he obviously can’t see what everyone thinks of his worldview, it’s probably too much to hope someone will hand him a copy of the mythological story of Pandora’s Box in the hope he’ll figure it out himself.
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Sony is the same company who put a rootkit on some of their audio cd's. Play it on your PC and WITHOUT ASKING PERMISSION, it installs itself. That should pretty much tell you about the caliber of the management there.
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Hence the reason I'm not getting bluray.
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Guys like this have the power and money to direct computers and operating systems in directions we dont want to go (think Vista). DRM is just the first step there are a lot worse things they could do and probably will try.
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Sony is the same company who put a rootkit on some of their audio cd's. Play it on your PC and WITHOUT ASKING PERMISSION, it installs itself. That should pretty much tell you about the caliber of the management there.
Serves you right for listening to Sony music! :lol
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See Rule #2
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Can someone pass me a bag of popcorn? I am settling here to see how this unfolds.
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See Rule #2
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See Rule #2
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I don't get how that wasn't on topic but ok, I'll rephrase.
The gentleman mentioned in the first post of this thread is slightly deluded in my opinion. The more he and his company do to make it more difficult to play and backup their CDs / DVDs / blueray / whatever the more people will bypass those complications and download it illegally instead.
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Yep and they dont seem to understand that any kind of copy protection they put on their stuff, it will be cracked and distributed faster than their product.
There is only one way to make people buy stuff that they can otherwise get for free: convenience.
For example, I could, if I wanted to, download every movie I wish to see for free from the internet's various pirate websites.
But I pay netflix because they have a freakin' HUGE library of movies, in high quality video definition and it saves me the hours that I'd need to spend surfing the net to get the same thing for free (plus it works directly from my TV). I dont have to mail in dvd's nor go to a store to rent.. none of that. my satellite receiver has the ability to contact netflix directly and it downloads the movie to my TV while I finish watching my regular tv show (then i watch the movie).
another great example: Apple's I-tunes store. Thanks to it I have not had to buy a CD nor have I had to pay for songs bundled in a CD that I did not like or want. A couple of clicks and voila! I have my songs paying less than a buck per each. That convenience is worth PAYING for.
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Sony is the same company who put a rootkit on some of their audio cd's. Play it on your PC and WITHOUT ASKING PERMISSION, it installs itself. That should pretty much tell you about the caliber of the management there.
what does it do once it installs itself? how do you now if it's there? how do you get rid of it?
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what does it do once it installs itself? how do you now if it's there? how do you get rid of it?
Here's more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal
It contains detailed information about the rootkit and a link for removal.
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Hence the reason I'm not getting bluray.
Hurt yourself for even thinking you needed it or wanted it. Besides, I think HP developed something even better a month or two ago, and Sony you know is gonna be pissed that Blue-ray, the technology that Sony said would never be improved on (so buy it now) just got put 6-feet under (lol).
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"That's some rule, that Rule #2". :D
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Here's more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal
It contains detailed information about the rootkit and a link for removal.
HAve any of you used this? and how does one check for this rootkit before doing anything?
the sonybmg site linked in there wants to d/l an exe file as the uninstaller?
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Well, of course it's an .exe. Just scan it once you downloaded it.
If you want you can always try AVG Anti-Rootkit Free.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/AVG-Anti-Rootkit.shtml