The root of the recording industry came from distribution.
That was trucking.
It's why the same gangsters ran these concessions: recording, publishing, pressing and distribution. This is a "legitimate business" that grew out of racketeering - and has never dispensed with the original ethos - they just went "legit" and lawyered-up.
But that's just it. He sees people getting content electronically online as taking (Stealing) things out of his members trucks.He doesn't care if you bought a legal electronic copy or not. Even if you buy a physical copy his members deliver it. He's speaking solely out of self interest. He doesn't like anything that lets you get delivery electronically.
But that's just it. He sees people getting content electronically online as taking (Stealing) things out of his members trucks.He doesn't care if you bought a legal electronic copy or not. Even if you buy a physical copy his members deliver it. He's speaking solely out of self interest. He doesn't like anything that lets you get delivery electronically.
Too bad for him, as that's the direction of entertainment delivery - no hard copy sitting in your bookshelf, bought at Sam Goody, down on the corner, delivered to that store by loaders and drivers.
So in other words, he is in precisely the same position as the buggy whip maker, crying a sad little story about how the new fangled automobile is of Satan and should be banned to protect honest Americans from the horrors of getting somewhere faster.
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
-- William Buckley
Must be some AFL-CIO people .. (Score:3)
Laying all that fibre, installing servers, manning phones at the offices of *AA attorneys, etc.
Re:Must be some AFL-CIO people .. (Score:5, Interesting)
The root of the recording industry came from distribution.
That was trucking.
It's why the same gangsters ran these concessions: recording, publishing, pressing and distribution. This is a "legitimate business" that grew out of racketeering - and has never dispensed with the original ethos - they just went "legit" and lawyered-up.
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Oh, and the gangsters weren't Sicilian.
You know, Meyer Lansky, that lot.
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Oh, and the gangsters weren't Sicilian.
You know, Meyer Lansky, that lot.
Russian? Polish? Belarus? Jewish? Mobbed up with the Italians?
Which lot?
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You hit the intersection of the two streams.
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Egon, you said that was bad.
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Are you the gatekeeper?
Re:Must be some AFL-CIO people .. (Score:5, Insightful)
But that's just it. He sees people getting content electronically online as taking (Stealing) things out of his members trucks.He doesn't care if you bought a legal electronic copy or not. Even if you buy a physical copy his members deliver it. He's speaking solely out of self interest. He doesn't like anything that lets you get delivery electronically.
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But that's just it. He sees people getting content electronically online as taking (Stealing) things out of his members trucks.He doesn't care if you bought a legal electronic copy or not. Even if you buy a physical copy his members deliver it. He's speaking solely out of self interest. He doesn't like anything that lets you get delivery electronically.
Too bad for him, as that's the direction of entertainment delivery - no hard copy sitting in your bookshelf, bought at Sam Goody, down on the corner, delivered to that store by loaders and drivers.
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So in other words, he is in precisely the same position as the buggy whip maker, crying a sad little story about how the new fangled automobile is of Satan and should be banned to protect honest Americans from the horrors of getting somewhere faster.