Oddly, this doesn't come as a surprise

[unixronin]

At a breakfast Thursday cohosted by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and The New Yorker, Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton told the audience his not-so-inner thoughts about the Internet.

“I’m a guy who doesn’t see anything good having come from the Internet... (The Internet) 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.”

“What we have here is a failure to communicate ... er ... adapt.” — Not Quite Cool Hand Luke

Comments

[lebo-superman.livejournal.com]

Perhaps that is because they've spent so many millions of dollars buying changes in copy-wrong laws to "protect their right to profit off of their investments".

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

The problem is that they are starting to lose artists willing to publish under their regime. When they can't control output, and they can't get talented input, it won't matter how many laws they have changed.

[lebo-superman.livejournal.com]

Thus be it always unto tyrants (or in this case, union leaders).

Of course, I realize that unions DO have their place, but what went wrong (IMHO) was that they out-lived their purpose, and had no other purpose, so they became a paper tiger hiding a toothless parasite.