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Sony CEO Proposes "Guardrails For the Internet"
testadicazzo writes "Micheal Lynton, the guy who said 'I'm a guy who doesn't see anything good having come from the Internet. Period.' has posted an editorial at the Huffington Post titled Guardrails for the Internet, in which he defends his comment, and suggests that just as the interstate system needs guardrails, so too does the information superhighway. The following is pretty indicative of the article: 'Internet users have become used to getting things when they want it and how they want it, and those of us in the entertainment business want to meet that kind of demand as efficiently and effectively as possible. But what has happened online is that if it is 'beyond store hours' and the shop is closed, a lot of people just smash the window and steal what they want. Freedom without restraint is chaos, and if we don't figure out some way to prevent online chaos, the quantity, quality and availability of the kinds of entertainment, literature, art and scholarship we need to have a healthy, vibrant culture will suffer.'"
Who doesn't see anything good having come from Sony
I guess we could just use some of those tubes for that?!
reedom without restraint is chaos, and if we don't figure out some way to prevent online chaos, the quantity, quality and availability of the kinds of entertainment, literature, art and scholarship we need to have a healthy, vibrant culture will suffer.
As a scholar, I attest that this is absolutely true (boldface mine). If we put our scholarship up for free, the following will happen:
So, to hell with this unrestricted Internet thing.
An old-timer with old-timey ideas.
metal bars for entertainment CEOs
Also 'Store times'? Who's time? From what time zone? Sheesh. This guy is stuck in the 1890's.
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I think he's actually right. One time, when my Cat6 cable had too tight of a bend, I had packets breaking through and slamming against the wiring closet wall. It was... terrible.
I would say its a government subsidy for commerce
Silly Sony. Don't they know they have to first run their business into the ground and ensure that it's all but worthless before they'll receive a government subsidy? ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Cut them some slack, they've been working on it for ages. Minidisc recorders with a useless, crippled format, DVDs that put trojans on your computer, they've done everything in the book to alienate their customers and lower their business. Not their fault that they even fail at failing.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I admit, I did buy a minidisc player in the late nineties (I was young an naive). I reckon Sony owe me anyway, so perhaps I should go and pirate some stuff now to make up for it.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
When they decide to start wearing pants I might pay attention to them.
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Ummm, most of the interstate system doesn't have guard rails. Sure, there are guard rails in the dangerous or highly populated spots, but most of the network doesn't have guard rails.
GTFOMP.
Get The Fuck Off My Poland ?
Does Sony think The Fugees are in the same caliber as any one of the above artists in terms of culture?
Without Sony, we wouldn't have classic movies like Angels and Demons, Fired Up!, Obsessed, The Pink Panther 2, Quantum of Solace, or the International.
Now in all seriousness - those movies all came straight from the front page of their web site... this is apparently what they are most proud of. In that list, there is only one movie that provokes any kind of interest in me at all, and it is yet another rehash of the old Bond series. Where, exactly, is all of this creativity that he speaks of?
I look at that horrific list, and when he says that output will be reduced all I can think is, "Good!" Maybe people will go outside instead of watching this dreck.
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he really ought to stop comparing the internet to a highway with guardrails and dangerous vehicles on it. i mean, the internet isn't a big truck.
i speak for myself and those who like what i say.
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Oh, sorry, gotta go now. My local internets are closing for the day.
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Hey hey now, the charity radio station I contribute to has three of the overpriced, clunky and slow desktop MD decks, and they do perfectly well making complex technology accessible to the out of touch by rendering it about as mechanistic and failure-prone as a steam-driven phonograph. Wait a sec...