September 23, 2004

Open letter to the entertainment industry

Yeah, I know that this is a joke, but it's still amusing. Not to mention spot-on, and a little too close to the truth.

Dear Content Producers and Owners: [i.e. labels and artists, among others]

... Look at us: every year, we churn out more computer games than your entire industry is worth. You know how we do it? We like our customers. We don't treat them like potential criminals, and try to make our products do less. We invent new things like online role-playing -games, where the money does not come from duplication of bits (which cannot be stopped, regardless of your DRM scheme) but from providing experiences that the people want. ...

Signed: The Computer Industry

Posted by Casper at September 23, 2004 01:24 PM
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