Read these quotes by a Sony VP:
“The [music] industry,” Heckler said, “will take whatever steps it needs to protect itself and protect its revenue streams. It will not lose that revenue stream, no matter what.”
“We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster at source — we will block it at your cable company, we will block it at your phone company, we will block it at your ISP. We will firewall it at your PC.”
Sony may be all about fooling consumers into expensive traps with flashy marketing – but having a senior executive confirm it in public is a bad idea. Let’s hope this gets as much publicity as possible… it will be a long time before Sony’s PR people allow any insider to tell the truth again.
Let me be clear here: I shed no tears for Napster. But a company with Sony’s attitude is dangerous to anyone standing in their way – even if that means all consumers, everywhere.
Hal listens to thunder and rain.
“What we call “consumerism” is really producerism. The “consumer economy” is a producer-controlled system in which consumers are nothing more than energy sources that metabolize “content” into cash.”
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Justin Hall is working a little less and writing a little more again.
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