Old Media Says Google Will Destroy Film & Music 336
SirWinston writes "A Daily Mail editor has written perhaps the most Luddite attack on Google ever, reading just like a 19th-century manifesto against looms and factories. 'Google has become a global predator ruthlessly gobbling up potential rivals such as YouTube and 'stealing' the creative work of writers, film makers and the music industry... Google has granted these piracy sites a licence to steal... It undermines investment in the very creative industries that have become such an important part of our national prosperity, and employ hundreds of thousands of people.' The article lionizes brick-and-mortar business and traditional media, and reads as a funny anachronism--except that these may be the attitudes of European regulators now shaking down Google and new media."
Quick, get that man a cane! (Score:5, Funny)
After all the effort and money spent on perverting copyright law worldwide, how DARE someone come along and defy them! Have they no respect for TRADITION!
Re:It's the Daily Mail (Score:3, Funny)
I hate the vast majority of pop, on principal, and even I know who the fuck she is. Good voice, actually.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_(singer) [wikipedia.org]
Re:trololololo (Score:5, Funny)
Newspapers? I've tried accessing one of those. They've got this awful fixed-size layout; any decent web developer will find a way to make a mobile-friendly version these days. Other serious usability issues are the lack of effective hyperlinks ("see page 5" is about as useful as "it's somewhere on the sitemap"), no way to stream audio or video, no RSS feeds, no search function, and no way to instantly update with breaking news. That's not even getting into the startup costs for a newspaper versus installing drupal on a VPS.
I just don't see how these new newspaper things are going to get a foothold in the market, considering all their disadvantages compared to established technologies.
Ban the Printing Press (Score:5, Funny)
The book copying industry used to put a lot of people in jobs. The Printing press destroyed the book industry!
Its stealing the work of creative people-who-copy-books-for-a-living.
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Technology moves forward. Deal with it.
Re:Ban the Printing Press (Score:5, Funny)
You son of a bitch. And here I was going to move to a monastery, make beer and wine, and write out books by hand for the rest of my life.
Seriously screw you and this new fangled shit!
Re:It's the Daily Mail (Score:5, Funny)
Re:trololololo (Score:5, Funny)
Newspapers are still useful and computers will never replace them entirely.
With newspapers you can:
And most important of all, you can wrap a cold beer so the cops can't tell what you're drinking!
I rest my case.
Re:It's the Daily Mail (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's the Daily Mail (Score:4, Funny)
that fucking song really is a mind-virus.
don't be fooled by the apparent ineptitude of the thing. it'll get in your head more than anything the RIAA can spew out.
i think it's an IQ draining virus. God knows how they found a common music-injection exploit in the general population.