Sony Pictures CEO: The Internet Is Stupid
Broadband Reports, May 26, 2009
By Karl Bode
With broadband destroying his cozy role as middleman between the artist and the consumer, it's not too surprising that Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton would be angry. But by suggesting that broadband is a force of pure chaos and that customers demanding more from him are selfish -- he ignores a massive slew of potential new business models, and displays a shocking amount of ignorance for a chief executive officer.
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