The panel was about the future of filmmaking, but that didn’t mean anyone had to like what they saw. “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.”
At a breakfast cohosted by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and The New Yorker Thursday, 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.”
Co-panelist Nora Ephron, who started her career in print, said the Internet has had a greater effect on “our beloved print than it’s had on the movie business.” But, she conceded, “We’re in the last days of copyright, if you want to be grim about it….Stop it. I dare you.”
I’d love to have a peek at this asshat’s browser cache and history. I’d bet he has had 24/7 access to porn, news, etc.
A media mogul complaining about entitlement? That’s rich.
What a whiny little bitch!
If your business model is failing/failed then you get out there and damn well devise a new one that can take advantage of what it was that made your current one obsolete, just like the media companies did with the advent of pre-recorded music on piano rolls, then gramaphone records, then tapes, CDs and DVDs. They complained bitterly against ALL of those things and yet swiftly changed how they operated and made billions and billions off them.
Today is no different from previous changes they had to make, except that they thought the draconian copyright laws they got their pet congress critters to pass would make them completely immune for ever under their current business model.
When EVERYONE breaks some copyright laws every single day like occurs now, there is something very wrong with the laws, and the NEED changing.
Sony first loss in 14 years and even bigger losses forecast for this year. It’s this kind of bold leadership and crystal clear vision that got them to this point.
Sony TV’s designed and manufactured in China. They screw over purchasers with root kit installations for music. They charge $50 to remove bloatware and crapware from their computers. It took them more than 6 months to respond to their laptop battery fiasco.
They’ve done brilliant products in the past and they still have a pretty decent brand, but I can’t think of anything they’ve done in the last 10 years (PSP, maybe) that makes me go “Wow”.
What a supreme ass. Ironically, it may point to what a poor job media companies like Sony have done in the Internet age. Its as if when they created the VCR, and no one produced commercially recorded videos, so they blame their own customers for recording video tapes. The real problem is dimwits like this guy who have no understanding of the needs of their customers, and who are stupid enough to make sweeping statements like this tool.
Zybch: When EVERYONE breaks some copyright laws every single day like occurs now, there is something very wrong with the laws, and the NEED changing.
Apply your logic to traffic laws and see how that works.
#6 – It works just fine. I get to my destination much faster when I stay with traffic instead of driving the speed limit.
Something is very wrong with traffic laws and they need changing.
6 “Apply your logic to traffic laws and see how that works.”
God, what a retarded analogy. First, traffic laws protect lives while copyright is a government granted monopoly, which is another way of saying copyright is like welfare for Disney and Viacom.
Second, despite the fact that traffic laws protect the actual lives of people and copyright protects flawed business models, the fines associated with copyright infringement are much higher, exponentially higher. Like hundreds of thousands of dollars for having a few songs in a share folder.
The first rule of making an analogy is making sure the concepts you’re comparing are analogous!
LETS NOT FORGET THAT..
this comment and thoughtline is based on the lie the MPAA told congress on the piracy numbers the industry provided congress back in the early 2005′s to make the case for sweeping piracy laws.
-they stated 44% loses due to piracy ,
then came out with new figures 2 years later stating “oops, our numbers were off, it was really only 10-15% loses.
we are supposed to ignore the huge conflict in interest in the fact that the people crying foul were allowed to sight their own internal study to support their case.
-not to mention the huge logistics problem presented in trying to quantify (translate) dubious piracy numbers into actual sales lost.
(not to mention how easy it is to create “piracy traffic” with dummy accounts and servers to further support *any* study
produced via anonymous traffic.
google “2005 piracy study mistake” to see the multitude of articles from 2008 sighting the “mistake” the MPAA admitted to finding in it’s own study. -which of course, was grossly under reported for obvious reasons.
Add to that (surprise!) -the AP/Newsweek story that reported story
-The ARStechnica article on the facts provides the best “viewpoint with integrity” on the matter.
(due to a corrupt registry, i cannot copy& paste links at this time. -the ARS story should show up on the 5th or 6th link on a Google search.)
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By and large people, especially “honest people” will still be honest and will
maintain that integrity regardless of any “free copyrighted content” that may be available to them.
this guy is implying that the as soon as copyrighted material is (illegally) found available for free, every upstanding citizen in the country will chuck their moral fiber to the wind and start downloading it like mad hamsters.
-such is the current, global mentality of authority.
-s
…seems to me that the blatantly dishonest people are the ones pointing the finger.
how that saying go?
“one finger pointing forward has three fingers pointing back”
-s
Can this guy be even more out of touch.
Considering the original copyright was for 14 years I can hardly shed a tear for these guys. They want perpetual copyright. They have paid off the lawmakers to make their dream a reality. And when it comes to raping orphaned works these same people have no remorse about screwing the original copyright holder. They also have no problem taking from the public domain: Macbeth, War of The Worlds, The Brothers Grim, etc.
Screw em if they can’t keep up
They haven’t even tried to take their business to the internet. Adapt or die, looks like the folks at Sony still haven’t figured it out.
Sony can go fuck themselves. They’re one of the most anti-consumer corporations out there.
He sounds like a farrier complaining about all these newfangled internal combustion engines.
The first rule of making an analogy is making sure the concepts you’re comparing are analogous!
Nobody drives the speed limit, so raise it until they do? WTF?
People steal copyrighted material, so let them? WTF?
The problem is that the analogy IS valid, and you guys who grew up getting all that content free expect the laws to change so you don’t have to ever pay for it.
This guy looks like a douche bag and opened his mouth and removed all doubt.
Getcher popcorn. Sony running itself into the ground is the best show in town.
Thrills! Spills! Big laffs!
17 “The problem is that the analogy IS valid”
No, I already explained how copyright and traffic offenses are two entirely different sets of laws, they serve two entirely different purposes, and that they have two entirely different systems of punishments. Merely saying they’re analogous does not make them analogous.
And second of all, exactly who is making either of these statements? “People steal copyrighted material, so let them?” or “People steal copyrighted material, so let them?”
What you’re doing is called a straw man argument. Instead of arguing against your opponent’s actual position, you create a weak position and then easily knock it down.
God, did you even finish first grade?