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Sony wants the Internet switched off |
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Written by Nick Farrell
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Monday, 18 May 2009 10:48 |
No good for anyone
A top Sony
executive has revealed how in touch the outfit is by secretly wishing that the
Internet was switched off.
It seems that if Sony Pictures Entertainment chief
executive officer Michael Lynton had his way he would have the Internet switched
off. He told a panel about the future of film making that he as a "guy who
doesn't see anything good having come from the Internet, period."
Lynton
moaned the Internet has "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. Give it to me now,' and if you don't give it to
them for free, they'll steal it."
This might explain why the luddites who are
behind the film and music industry moved at glacial speed to develop a method of
distributing films on the web and believed that the only way to deal with the
net was to sue users.
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