Maybe Disney-ABC Won’t Pinch GooTube’s Head
In a recent analyst call, Disney-ABC Television president framed content piracy as a competitor. Disney has always had the most fierce content attorneys, so this is a surprising quote. Via an arstechnica article I found in Adriana’s furl.
“So we understand piracy now as a business model,” said Anne Sweeney, the president of Disney-ABC Television Group. “It exists to serve a need in the marketplace specifically for consumers who want TV content on demand and it competes for consumers the same way we do, through high-quality, price and availability and we don’t like the model. But we realize it’s effective enough to make piracy a key competitor going forward. And we’ve created a strategy to address this threat with attractive, easy to use ways to for viewers to get the content they want from us legally; in other words, keeping honest people honest.”
Disney’s against piracy. It’s kind of funny, but this year they’ve made more money in glorifying piracy.
Isn’t Disney the original pirate? Didn’t they grab some Brothers Grimm characters and make a boodle off them? Pinochio, Snow White, Brer Rabbit: weren’t those pirated by Disney?