Whine, whine, whine: Crybaby head of NBC Universal attacks Apple

[thatcrazycajun]

Jeff Zucker, CEO of NBC Universal, which has pulled its TV shows from Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store in a dispute over pricing, wails that, and I quote, "Apple has destroyed the music business...and if we don't take control on the video side, they'll do the same to video." (See article here.)

Um, Jeff? Actually....no. If anyone's killing the music business, it's most certainly not Apple; it's you and your minions at the record labels your firm owns, the other conglomerate-owned labels, and your lawsuit-happy buddies over at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). And the sooner you realize that and quit trying to blame someone else for your own short-sightedness, the sooner your industry can pull out of its current death spiral...assuming that's even possible, which I do not by any means consider a given.

Comments

[osewalrus.livejournal.com]

They really dislike competition, especially stuff that disrupts their business model.

Poor babies . . . .

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

You mean like the link I posted over the weekend?

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Mostly, I agree with you. But I still feel the need to point out that Apple's doing the consumer no good as long as it still offers tracks with DRM of any sort (which leads to lock-in, which is anticompetitive, etc. etc. and so forth). So give him 10% accuracy, and then ream his coccyx.