Hollywood Agent Ari Emanuel Wants a Magic 'Stop Piracy' Button

closer2it writes "At this week's All Things D conference, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher invited Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel. He spoke about things like TV not dying, cord-cutting being some kind of myth, and that googlers are smart guys and they should do something about the stealing of content. Josh Topolsky, from The Verge, apparently challenged him (video) on this point, asking: 'Aren't you saying that the road is responsible for the fact that someone drove on it before they robbed my house?' Emanuel didn't like this analogy, and even ended the reply asking Topolsky where he works. Mike Masnick also wrote a piece about the interview. I guess that if the Internet has enemies, I'd say Emanuel gives them a face."

Re:I'd like a pony while we're at it.

[jakimfett]

Ah, clarification...he didn't say that he was smart enough to actually *listen* to the "Googlers"...just that they are smart people.

Somebody

[dadioflex]

Somebody is responsible for me feeling annoyed right now, but who do I blame? Slashdot for posting the story, Emanuel for being an idiot, or.. it's me, isn't it?

Re:I'd like a pony while we're at it.

[Arancaytar]

Just get your pony off BitTorrent.

"You wouldn't download a pony"?

Fuck that, of course I would.