The Sony Way
p2pnet.net News:- Sony Electronics is this week launching a new $300 digital camera, says PC World here. It’s a “fully-functional high-end digital camera in a small package at an affordable price,” says the report
Cool.
Speaking of small packages at an affordable prices, isn’t Sony is one of the major studios that more or less wants what it calls camcorder ‘pirates’ to be hung, drawn and quartered?
It’s among the owners of the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) which recently started its own version of the RIAA’s sue ‘em all campaign, using night vision goggles and metal detectors instead of subpoenas.
And it has a whole range of neat little camcorders such as the DCR-HC20 MiniDV Handycam that packs “big features in a small package” and that’s “25% smaller than last years model”.
Sony boasts that it invented the SteadyShot picture stabilization motion sensor system that, “smoothes and steadies your images without degrading picture quality” and which is “a more accurate system than many other camcorders on the market”.
Just right for making surreptitious home movies.
Sony-BMG is also a member of the Big Four record label cartel which has just instructed the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) to intensify its Take No Prisoners legal campaign against men, women and children who use p2p applications.
The RIAA always makes a point of lumping these people in with the hard-core professional criminals who flood world blackmarkets with fake CDs and DVDs.
Interestingly, Sony also makes and sells highly affordable, and highly profitable, CD and DVD burners.
August 30th, 2004 at 10:05 pm
If the Induce act passes Sony will have to sue itself.
August 31st, 2004 at 1:09 pm
Question? If the Induce act passes, won’t that mean the RIAA and MPAA will have to sue itsself for offering files for download on P2P networks. Also RCA, Sony, and all other TV makers will have to be sued for making a device that makes me want to copy the tv shows “hellywood” produces. I beleve that should be the “INDUNCE ACT” It’s takes a real “dunce” to come up with something like that. Mabey we should look at filling a class action suit against all company’s that produce multimedia in any form.
September 1st, 2004 at 1:05 am
BMG essentially sued itself when it was heavily invested in Napster at the same time that BMG was a RIAA member during their lawsuit against Naster.
September 1st, 2004 at 1:29 am
Sony is really only displaying good business sense to be straddling both sides of the fence.
In the 18th and 19th centuries the Rothschild bankers made a fortune by loaning money to (if not inciting) nations at war – and preferrably both sides at the same time – patriotism be damned!
Sony has acknowledged the reality that people are going to be “pirating” anyway, with or without them, so it’s always better to be the one selling equipment to pirates than to have someone else profit from it. Sony’s only tactical error was in failing to aggressively develop “piracy-inducing” products – and allowing Apple to beat them to the punch with their highly profitable IPOD.