NBC Still Down On P2P But Plans To Use It Themselves 153
Cotton Eye Joe writes "Ars Technica has an interview with Rick Cotton, the general counsel for NBC Universal who is best known for saying that piracy is a more serious offence than robbery. Cotton still has some strong opinions on P2P, even though the network will be using it for distribution. 'He's convinced that the pirate problem is costing NBC Universal real revenue and that the scale of the problem is so vast as to discourage investment in the carrots, positive solutions like Hulu. "With all that pirated material available, it creates tremendous disincentives to content owners who need to invest in new content," Cotton says, "and that just hurts consumers over time."'"
Re:Huh? (Score:3, Funny)
Still.. what a douche.
Re:Nothing to see here... move along (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Not replying to you so much as replying to the NBC exec....
Of course piracy is worse than robbery. Holding someone up at gunpoint or with a sword while in the middle of an ocean and threatening to kill them if they don't hand over all of their valuables is about as bad as you can get. I mean, what's to stop them from killing their victims just out of spite? There's certainly no possibility of law enforcement ever being able to catch them, practically speaking, as they're out in the absolute middle of nowhere, so it is basically a low-risk, high rewards way of leaching off of society.
Oh, wait... you are talking about copyright infringement? Worse than robbery?
*blinks*
*spews soda everywhere, then laughs hysterically*
That's a good one. You really had me going there. I thought you were serious for a minute. You're kidding me, right? Right? ... Right? ........... *blinks*
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)