Sony Pictures CEO and the Internet: Somebody Call the Waambulanc...

Courtesy Mashable!  Wed, 05/27/2009 - 06:44

waambulanceSony Pictures Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton has written a long post about the impact of Internet on the entertainment industry over at Huffington Post .

Techdirt offers an excellent paragraph-for-paragraph rebuttal (or, a different point of view, if you will), but Lynton’s argument can be summed up in one sentence.

Mr. Lynton is mad at the Internet because it allows people to easily copy copyrighted content, and he wants to create rules (guardrails) that will make...


 

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