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NBC Chief Slamming Apple
On the heels of the beta of NBC's and News Corp.'s less-than-killer Hulu music store, NBC's chief Jeff Zucker is speaking out and saying the darnedest things. First, news.com reports, with derision, that Zucker demanded a cut of Apple's iPod revenue. That'll sure happen. Next, AppleInsider caught Zucker urging colleagues to take a stand against Apple's iTunes, charging that the digital download service was undermining the ability of traditional media companies to set profitable rates for their content online.
http://www.wulfram.com?mkid=31257 - There's some sense in what he's saying, it panders to the free market and isn't economically healthy for media corps on a long term basis.
http://www.wulfram.com?mkid=31257
Ok guys, you want to make some real money? Are you tired of all these issues with the labels? Well, here is an easy win.
First, Schwartz and Ellis, develop your own itune clone. IOW, get some competition out there.
While you are doing that, each of you invest money quietly into your own web sites that are devoted to getting musicians off of labels. You could even create your own label, but that will be defeating the purpose. By simply getting sites devoted to helping musicians music out and marketed, you can cut the labels out. Music tends to turn over about 3-5 years (pretty fickle listener). That means that within 5 years, you control an ENTIRE industry. The labels would be wiped out within 10 years (they have long term contracts). And the listeners AND musicians would THANK YOU. Why? Because you will have wiped out an oligopoly that leaches from everybody.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Not rape, pimping.
Prostitution can exist without women being abducted and turned into heroine/crack slaves, but while prostitution is illegal that's unlikely.
That's Zucker; like fucker, right?
The guy may as well have called Hell's Angels a bunch of sissies.
A good rule to follow is that, when you are going to piss a group of people off, make sure it's a group not sufficiently motivated to assume a lynchmob mentality.
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
you are insane.
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The apple mentality is just the same. I think its funny that every time someone disparages them all the cool aid drinkers line up to defend them. Just like back in the day with another monopolist that every defended till he became more powerful than the government. Lets face it all the "big boys" from that era are greedy scumbags and given the opportunity they will take everything and provide nothing. Ie apples spiffy new intel line running a bsd derivative...
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