Monday, July 23, 2007
Pot calls kettle greedy
Sony Records CEO calls Steve Jobs greedy.
Let's see, this is the same guy who regularly rips off music artists by claiming he can't send them their royalties because he can't "find" them, has laid off 1/3rd of his recording artists over the past six years while getting record salaries and bonuses for himself, runs a multi-national conglomerate that conspires with other multi-national conglomerates to keep CD prices artificially and unsustainably high then griping that people won't buy his overpriced wares (hint: ain't *no* way that a 45-minute long CD whose production cost a couple million tops should cost more than a DVD for a 90-minute-long movie that probably cost over fifty million to make, there's a reason why DVD sales are skyrocketing while CD sales are plummeting, and it ain't called "Bittorrent", it's called people maximizing their entertainment value for the money), and otherwise is a pot colored greedy in every single way, and then he has the audacity to call Steve Jobs greedy?
Of course Steve Jobs wants to have all the profits he can get for his company. But Apple doesn't control 40% of the music industry the way Sony does, and people have viable alternatives to Apple if they want to purchase computers, music, or music-playing devices. People buy Apple's stuff because Apple's stuff simply works best, not because of any conspiracy by Steve Jobs to force them to buy Apple stuff, the way that the traditional music labels conspired to force independents out of the distribution chain so that you were forced to buy their product or nothing at all (a plan which of course has backfired on them since the independents now are on the web and taking an increasing chunk of the market from the majors, but the majors' Mafia-type tactics made sense in the 1970's, I suppose)...
Pot, see kettle. Pot, call kettle black. Pot, look like the biggest fucking greedy dumbass hypocrite to ever walk this planet. 'Nuff said!
-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
Vorschau, dammit! Yes, the German lessons at the hands of Tor and Blogger.com continue! Labels: music, righteous rants
Posted by: BadTux / 7/23/2007 05:01:00 PM
Comments:
Pot and Kettle are both greedy. Duh!!
# posted by BBC : 23/7/07 6:40 PM
"Let's Rootkit Our Customers To Make Sure We Get Every Last Dime Out Of This Album" Sony calls Apple greedy. Hmmm.
# posted by Rachel : 23/7/07 7:21 PM
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