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Tech Industry Versus Content Industry

Posted by Hemos on from the battle-of-the-industries dept.

gambit3 writes "Business 2.0's Cover Story this month asks whether Andy Grove is a Pirate. Interesting read on the mainstream media about the battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Read about in Business 2.0"

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  1. Give me a break... by Quadrature · · Score: 3, Funny
    Chairman Hollings was only slightly less infuriated than the two CEOs. "Where did you get all this nonsense about ... 'irreparable damage'?"
    The same place you got this nonsense about treating the average consumer as a criminal.
  2. Correction... by Krapangor · · Score: 2, Funny

    The US entertainment industry treats the average criminal as a consumer.

    --
    Owner of a Mensa membership card.
    1. Re:Correction... by jo42 · · Score: 3, Funny
      > I'm a proud owner of a Mensa membership card.

      Please give it back to its original owner.

  3. We're all guilty of piracy... by darkov2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    On several occasions I've witnessed people blatantly downloading songs into local storage. They claimed the copy was of poor quality, but they clearly were humming the melody and remebered the words. Sometimes other people would hear and start humming too, thus proliferating the illegal copies to other pirates.

    This must be stamped out. The recording industry is working with goverment to mandate mind control devices to eliminate people enjoying music without fair and equitable payments to the rightful copyright holders. Maybe then we can stop the tradgedy of the children of record company executives going hungry.

    We must always be vigilant and stop commiting these henious crimes against the companies who created music and merriment.

    1. Re:We're all guilty of piracy... by DannyO152 · · Score: 3, Funny

      (New York, NY) Sheet Music Publishers call for national registration of musical instruments.

      "We find that users of musical instruments frequently reverse-engineer popular recordings and their underlying melodic and harmonic structures. This practice threatens the viability of sheet music sales and decreases royalties to artists," according to Fenster Johansen, IV, Assitant Senior Adjutant Vice President for Media Relations for a very very very obscure and virtually unfindable sheet music trade organization.

      "We also have reports that musicians who have learned a piece of music, often by just listening, will then teach other musicians 'the riff'. Some musicians will write down the melody in musical notation on a piece of paper. They call it 'by ear' and transposition, we call it sheet music theft networking."

      "We propose that all sales of music instruments be accompanied by a EULA in which the buyer promises to not learn any copyrighted musical compositions, except through purchase and study of that composition's legally sanctioned sheet music. Failing that we ask that legislation be enacted to tax the sales of instruments and these moneys be distributed to sheet music publishers as reimbursement for lost revenues."

      When asked about sales of synthesizer sound cards which can convert a personal computer to a musical instrument, Mr. Johansen added "while we have not taken an official position regarding this, we are developing technologies to block this form of sheet music theft. Essentially a personal computer synthesizer would match against a database of controlled compositions before playing any sequence of notes. In order for this to work properly, we believe that this form of rights management must be mandatorilly included in operating systems. We need to determine how much it will cost to get such protective legislation before we take an official position."

  4. From the Poll by Odinson · · Score: 3, Funny
    I read the poll like this.

    • 83% percent of people do not own media stocks, or are more concerned with the perfromance of their tech stocks.
    • 14% of people own media stocks and think people who own tech stocks smell.
    • 2% of people don't know what stock is.

    :)

    --
    Novel theory: Modern Man evolved from psychopath