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Sony pictures CEO says nothing good has come from the internet

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Nothing good ? damn, guess we are all just wasting time and money with the net, everyone toss your modem and routers in the trash, they are good for nothing according to this guy.

http://www.wwd.com/media-news/...-martha-2136751?page=2
BAD INTERNET: The panel was about the future of filmmaking, but that didn?t mean anyone had to like what they saw. ?I?m a guy who doesn?t see anything good having come from the Internet,? said Sony Pictures Entertainment chief executive officer Michael Lynton. ?Period.?

At a breakfast cohosted by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and The New Yorker Thursday, Lynton wasn?t just trying for a laugh: He complained the Internet has ?created this notion that anyone can have whatever they want at any given time. It?s as if the stores on Madison Avenue were open 24 hours a day. They feel entitled. They say, ?Give it to me now,? and if you don?t give it to them for free, they?ll steal it.?

Co-panelist Nora Ephron, who started her career in print, said the Internet has had a greater effect on ?our beloved print than it?s had on the movie business.? But, she conceded, ?We?re in the last days of copyright, if you want to be grim about it?.Stop it. I dare you.?

Lynton tried out another simile. Referring to the Obama administration?s goal to spread broadband access without, he said, regulating piracy, Lynton compared it with building highway systems without speed limits or driver?s licenses. ?We do need rules of the road,? he said. (Lynton may not have liked Ephron?s chosen analogy for the way some people in the movie business are paid: ?It?s a giant Ponzi scheme set up to compensate a few people at unbelievable rates,? she said, adding, ?These people live like pashas. You cannot imagine the scale of wealth in Hollywood. People live like that here, but we live in apartments so you can?t see as much.?)

Though Anne Hathaway, also on the panel and wearing Stella McCartney, lamented the Internet ?inhibits your ability to get lost,? either in a role or in watching a film, she shrugged off moderator Ken Auletta?s question about whether the blogosphere had coarsened coverage of actors like her. ?It was always true,? she said. ?It?s just giving everyone a bathroom wall to write exactly what they think.?
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Hes a moron that is slowly watching the demise of his company as he knows it. And you expected him to answer differently?
 
"At a breakfast cohosted by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and The New Yorker Thursday, Lynton wasn?t just trying for a laugh: He complained the Internet has ?created this notion that anyone can have whatever they want at any given time. It?s as if the stores on Madison Avenue were open 24 hours a day. They feel entitled. They say, ?Give it to me now,? and if you don?t give it to them for free, they?ll steal it.?
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Well he's spot on with that one. The rest is just ramblings of a madman.
 
He complained the Internet has ?created this notion that anyone can have whatever they want at any given time. It?s as if the stores on Madison Avenue were open 24 hours a day. They feel entitled. They say, ?Give it to me now,? and if you don?t give it to them for free, they?ll steal it.?
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He's never heard of the Apple App Store has he?
 
People warning about rootkit infested music cds, user reviews of crappy and overpriced electronics, the mp3 ending sony's dominance in the music market, bloggers exposing fake movie critics and stupid advertisement campaigns...I can see why this guy thinks the internet sucks.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
"At a breakfast cohosted by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and The New Yorker Thursday, Lynton wasn?t just trying for a laugh: He complained the Internet has ?created this notion that anyone can have whatever they want at any given time. It?s as if the stores on Madison Avenue were open 24 hours a day. They feel entitled. They say, ?Give it to me now,? and if you don?t give it to them for free, they?ll steal it.?
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Well he's spot on with that one. The rest is just ramblings of a madman.
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Agreed. It definitely gives people a false sense of entitlement.
 
Originally posted by: peritusONE
I actually have to kind of agree with that second bolded section...
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And you don't think that broadcasting programming through the airwaves to be received free of charge by consumers for the past 70 some years has had anything to do with people thinking that way? All they had to do was condition themselves to ignore the advertising.
 
Maybe if box sets of a few cheaply made DVD's didn't cost 300+ dollars people would stop pirating them. It isn't like they would have bought it anyway.

I wouldn't pay a months rent / car payment / whatever to watch Sony's garbage again if it wasn't free online.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
"At a breakfast cohosted by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and The New Yorker Thursday, Lynton wasn?t just trying for a laugh: He complained the Internet has ?created this notion that anyone can have whatever they want at any given time. It?s as if the stores on Madison Avenue were open 24 hours a day. They feel entitled. They say, ?Give it to me now,? and if you don?t give it to them for free, they?ll steal it.?
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Well he's spot on with that one. The rest is just ramblings of a madman.
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Only spidey07 could agree with anything this douchebag has to say
 
Well, given that Sony is responsible for Securom, his opinions are no surprise: the clamp down on second-hand sales explained away in a few short sentences regarding piracy.


 
I don't get how anybody with a brain at Sony could want to keep this guy as a CEO. CEO's are supposed to be visionaries that will embrace change and put it to use for them. Those business leaders who try to swim upstream drown themselves and everybody below them.
 
The guy sounds like a moron, but I do agree with his comment on the sense of entitlement it has given people in terms of stealing media.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
"At a breakfast cohosted by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and The New Yorker Thursday, Lynton wasn?t just trying for a laugh: He complained the Internet has ?created this notion that anyone can have whatever they want at any given time. It?s as if the stores on Madison Avenue were open 24 hours a day. They feel entitled. They say, ?Give it to me now,? and if you don?t give it to them for free, they?ll steal it.?
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Well he's spot on with that one. The rest is just ramblings of a madman.
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Yeah, it's not like iTunes has made any money.
 
Originally posted by: jman19
The guy sounds like a moron, but I do agree with his comment on the sense of entitlement it has given people in terms of stealing media.
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I do see what he means there. The thing is the majority of people don't know how to access the "free" stuff anyway.

Ask Joe Schome on the street what Bit Torrent program he uses and you'll get a blank stare.
 
Originally posted by: jman19
The guy sounds like a moron, but I do agree with his comment on the sense of entitlement it has given people in terms of stealing media.
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Make it cheaper, better and more appealing and you will sell enough copies to offset any piracy. At the minute, paying customers are suffering a series of problems that the pirates do not experience. We have Sony to thank for this in many instances. I feel that draconian security measures actually encourage piracy. Instead of assigning money to research increasingly stringent DRM, which will inevitably be bypassed, spend the money on creating a better product.

 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: spidey07
"At a breakfast cohosted by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and The New Yorker Thursday, Lynton wasn?t just trying for a laugh: He complained the Internet has ?created this notion that anyone can have whatever they want at any given time. It?s as if the stores on Madison Avenue were open 24 hours a day. They feel entitled. They say, ?Give it to me now,? and if you don?t give it to them for free, they?ll steal it.?
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Well he's spot on with that one. The rest is just ramblings of a madman.
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Yeah, it's not like iTunes has made any money.
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and netflix

 
The world has changed and studio presidents continue refuse to acknowledge that fact.

Instead of selling a DVD/BR for $15/$25 (currently a dying business) they could be hawking it online via some sort of iTunes solution for $5 or $10 and making the difference up in volume.

At the same time they could push back the video windows to get more out of the theatrical runs and make 2nd run film profitable again.
 
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