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Edited on Wed Aug-20-03 09:28 AM by Tandalayo_Scheisskop
If you look at the myriad excuses for the tanking that the entertainment industry is presently mired within, it is becoming clear that there is a common thread running through all of their excuses:
"It ain't our fault our stuff tanks! It's that Demon Technology!"
With the Internet, it is used in a desperate ploy to maintaing their grip on their failing distribution model. It's failing, too. Just ask the great producer, Jimmy Iovine. He warned them that they would have to fully embrace the Internet, as their target buyers were embracing it and the damn thing was not going away. They ignored him. As it turns out, at their peril.
Now, the movie industry is using the same demonization tack on another type of information technology. You see, they invest a lot of money in carefully-crafted marketing campaigns to create a perception, a mood if you will, around their movies. But still, they make Movies That Suck. Dogs. But these sociopaths, scratching and clawing furiously to gain ground, cannot admit that they make crap. So they need a scapegoat and golly(!), that there technology sure is convenient.
Look for them to blame another form of technology for their woes RSN. Just like it was when they were doing cocaine, once they get on a roll, they just can't stop themselves.
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