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the__ivorytower ([info]the__ivorytower) wrote in [info]unfunnybusiness,
@ 2009-05-27 00:46:00
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The way my jaw hangs open and unhinged cannot be good for my TMJ...
Wat.

A highlight:

I responded, "I'm a guy who sees nothing good having come from the Internet. Period."

and

How many people will be as motivated to write a book or a song, or make a movie if they know it is going to be immediately stolen from them and offered to the world with no compensation whatsoever?

Please note, the man saying this? Is the CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

[post was edited to correct what he was CEO of, many apologies.]

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[info]t_boy
2009-05-27 05:00 am UTC (link)
I saw this in BoingBoing some time ago.

Is okay, have stopped buying Sony products for quite some time now. If all I'm getting from you is the sense of being treated like a thief and a "corrupter", then I suppose you don't really want my business after all.

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[info]the__ivorytower
2009-05-27 05:01 am UTC (link)
(My initial thought was "No! I said no such--" and then went 'you' = guy, right. It's late, don't mind me.)

Even more awesomely, he *used* to be the CEO of AOL. An ISP. The guy is just a fucking five star winner.

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[info]t_boy
2009-05-27 05:04 am UTC (link)
Hee hee hee. Yeah, that's really a bad habit there, isn't it?

I'm not surprised at the fact that he was AOL's CEO; no wonder he thinks the Internet is a butthole of society; he was the one of it's biggest polluters. XD

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[info]deadwood
2009-05-27 05:08 am UTC (link)
Nothing good having come from the internet? I'll just keep that in mind next time I reconnect with some friend I haven't seen in forever via Facebook. Or next time I get my multiple POV news. Or some information about why my betta's tail disappeared and how to treat it. Or directions to some location since I am helpless with maps (and I don't know why. It should be easy, but I always get lost). Or one of a million other things.

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[info]hallidae
2009-05-27 05:12 am UTC (link)
This. As much as the majority of the things I've learned from it make my want to dig my brain out with a spoon, the internet can actually be useful for life. Hell, the other day, I had to ask someone via phone text to look up the federal minimum wage on google because I was in the middle of a conversation at lunch and totally blanked on remembering what it had gone up to.

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[info]deadwood
2009-05-27 05:55 am UTC (link)
Google: Completely worthless.

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[info]kookaburra
2009-05-27 06:26 am UTC (link)
Yeah - I'm getting an A in math for the first time in my life because when my math book gives me a way to do something that makes no goddamn sense to me, I can google it and have several websites that give alternate explantations/procedures in seconds. But I guess that's nothing good because then who will buy all the expensive textbooks?

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[info]marumae
2009-05-27 02:22 pm UTC (link)
Freaking THIS. It's revolutionized my research for papers due.

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[info]evilsqueakers
2009-05-27 02:32 pm UTC (link)
Or that you can rent textbooks now instead of paying 150 bucks for a seven week course.

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[info]goblin
2009-05-27 04:14 pm UTC (link)
Woah. This never occurred to me, but as soon as you mentioned it I went on a Googling rampage. Thank youuuuuuuu!

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[info]evilsqueakers
2009-05-28 01:48 am UTC (link)
I know! My teacher didn't mention it last summer but it was one of the links she gave. I'm gonna do that next week since I can pick the days. It's soo much more sensible! I'm so glad someone invented the idea.

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[info]bigbigtruck
2009-05-27 05:09 pm UTC (link)
Safe online shopping only became widely available my senior year in college, but even so, the campus bookstore lost about $350 from me thanks to online retailers actually carrying stuff used and in paperback.

*thumbs nose at Viking Books and their ridiculous prices*

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[info]finchbird
2009-05-27 05:10 am UTC (link)
My window that has a bunch of fanfics on it would like to tell this idiot the internet has done some good.

But in all seriousness, he's a dumbass.

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[info]bienegold
2009-05-27 05:21 am UTC (link)
What's with all the company runners alienating customers these days?

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[info]kookaburra
2009-05-27 06:28 am UTC (link)
My guess, from having worked for a company-runner for a shortshort while, is that they are so used to people telling them that their ideas are wonderful they assume that people who aren't on their payroll with think the same.

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[info]lady_ganesh
2009-05-27 06:48 pm UTC (link)
That's my guess, too.

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[info]athersgeo
2009-05-27 08:36 am UTC (link)
They've been doing it for a long ol' while. Google Gerald Ratner and see how you can *REALLY* shoot yourself in the foot with your cliental...!

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[info]isntitironic
2009-05-27 02:31 pm UTC (link)
Oh, Gerald Ratner. Have you read the article in which he bawwwwws about the hardship of driving home without a chauffer? Or how he was so sure of getting a job with daddy's company that he never finished school? Or how his $350 million settlement left him 'penniless'?

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[info]athersgeo
2009-05-27 02:44 pm UTC (link)
I haven't, but I'm not terribly surprised to find there are things like that out there. His sort of person doesn't remotely live in what anyone else would consider to be the real world.

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[info]isntitironic
2009-05-27 02:48 pm UTC (link)
Apparently there's a whole book of this whining.

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[info]aaron_agonistes
2009-05-27 05:39 am UTC (link)
But I also want their future to be filled with the kind of music and books and films and other creative sparks that have enlivened my life and our culture through the years.

The kind that I make money from, dammit!

See, he keeps talking, and all I hear is "blah blah blah, VCRs will destroy Hollywood, blah blah blah, if you provide blank cassettes nobody will buy music ever again, blah blah blah".

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[info]hallidae
2009-05-27 06:01 am UTC (link)
We need a new Mr. Rogers. I'm not sure I can come up with someone who could completely pwn like he did (though, considering how Sony acts now, I find it ironic that he was actually defending them over the legality of vcrs).

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[info]sneer
2009-05-27 03:44 pm UTC (link)
"blah blah blah, VCRs will destroy Hollywood, blah blah blah, if you provide blank cassettes nobody will buy music ever again, blah blah blah".

HEE HEE YES EXACTLY.

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[info]freezer
2009-05-27 05:56 am UTC (link)
So how does he suppose that placing limits on the net in America will stop for-profit piracy in places like South Korea (or Russia or China) where the government does jack shit to stop it?

And doesn't his company's bell cow product make extensive use of the Internet?

And did he seriously just equate the internet to the US Interstate System?

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[info]bienegold
2009-05-27 06:17 am UTC (link)
It's a series of tubes!

And obviously, piracy has totally ceased in countries that have bandwidth caps. OH WAIT.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2009-05-27 08:24 am UTC (link)
...he does know that a good 80% of the people who downloaded the leaked Wolverine movie went and saw it in theaters like twice, right?

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[info]freezer
2009-05-27 12:22 pm UTC (link)
That just means they missed out on the cash from that 20%! You're taking food out of their babies' mouths, DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT!?!?

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[info]esclaramonde
2009-05-27 02:03 pm UTC (link)
They deserve the money from people who hated it!

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[info]rodo
2009-05-27 11:27 pm UTC (link)
I am one of the remaining 20% and I wouldn't have watched it in the cinema anyway. I do that with other movies, though.

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*preaches to the choir*
[info]esclaramonde
2009-05-27 02:02 pm UTC (link)
This sort of thing wouldn't bother me so much - I mean, I can understand Sony's concern - if they didn't totally misunderstand filesharing. If someone downloads a movie before it's out and likes it, they'll probably go see it and the studio won't have lost anything. If someone downloads an older album they wouldn't ever buy, nobody's losing money. It is nothing at all like stealing actual merchandise from a store.

I like how he brings in books in order to sound like he's standing for ~*~culture~*~ when downloading new books is not really a big deal compared to new music and movies. "Save the libraries!!"

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Re: *preaches to the choir*
[info]evilsqueakers
2009-05-27 02:40 pm UTC (link)
What about the people who sell their books online, like authors for Kindle? They totes don't find the internet useful.

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Re: *preaches to the choir*
[info]fresco_le_raye
2009-05-27 03:30 pm UTC (link)
A couple of nights ago I tried to buy an ebook. The first one I tried to download, I wasn't allowed to because of some arcane reason to do with me living in the wrong place. The next two or three sites I tried only had formats that were incompatible with my computer.

I gave up in the end. The author lost a sale as a direct result of all the restrictions idiots like this have put in the way of distributing material online. Tell me again, *who* is responsible for artists not getting paid for their efforts...?

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Re: *preaches to the choir*
[info]the__ivorytower
2009-05-27 06:48 pm UTC (link)
If he's all about saving the libraries from the internet, he should go tell my course teachers that they can stop putting such a heavy emphasis of the importance of accurate and intelligent internet searching, all the forms of media and applications of the internet, and the importance of having safe, restricted internet access in libraries.

Oh wait, he's an idiot. That's right.

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[info]jedi_dwh
2009-05-27 02:10 pm UTC (link)
"I'm a guy who sees nothing good having come from the Internet. Period."

Well, there goes the Sony Pictures method of GETTING ANYTHING DONE AT ALL. Not like we submit all our requests through e-mail. And not like we FTP show data between companies. No, Sony could certainly get along without the internet. I suggest we get rid of it for a few days, see how that goes.

(Minor nitpick- Lynton is the CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment (one of two, which confuses me- if the company is so hard up for money that they have to lay off so much of their productive staff, why do we need two CEOs?), which is just one of many divisions of Sony. Sir Howard is the CEO of Sony at large. I know this because he occasionally sends us e-mails. Usually when people are being laid off.)

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[info]sarracenia
2009-05-27 07:24 pm UTC (link)
"I'm a guy who lacks the imagination to change my business so I can profit from the internet, and therefore I'm going to whine about its very existence. Because clearly if it isn't profiting me it's worthless. Period."

Fixed it!

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[info]cygnia
2009-05-28 04:42 am UTC (link)
*looks over at her husband, whom she met over the Internet*

*sighs*

*headdesk*

"Nothing good"...right.

*goes and looks for David Tennant pics on line in the meantime*

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[info]inappropriate
2009-05-28 05:56 am UTC (link)
Funny, I wouldn't have my Sony TV or computer if it weren't for the internet... Hmmmm.

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[info]frequentmouse
2009-05-28 06:19 pm UTC (link)
"I'm a guy who sees nothing good having come from the Internet. Period."

*idly wonders how many of their dvd and cd sales come through Amazon.com*

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