Comments on: NBC says bye to iTunes, hello to piracy and lost revenue

If you want to stop piracy of your programming, why would you take it off legitimate services? The peacock is in for a rude awakening.

[DayNovo]

Saying Hulu to a new name

In getting to the name News Corp had to actually acquire a family's photo site at hulu.com.
Will the Internet majors go even further to secure the names that they are looking for? For further analysis check out:
http://sneakybusiness.typepad.com/sneaky/2007/08/is-murdoch-afte.html

[scalpshifter]

Preaching to the Choir!

There is no way that, in the long run, digital data that is ubiquitous can be copyright protected. There is an obvious alternative for making money in the music business and the smart people got this long ago ? but the corporate r-tards will never get it, and that is why corporate dominance evolves over time. In a few cases, nimble and savvy corporations have leaders who force change despite the incredible inertial resistance within. Take a look at centuries old Japanese companies.

[kinofile]

They're All The Same

For the record, Universal Music Group and NBC are parts of the same monster
conglomerate, NBC Universal, owned by General Electric and Vivendi. Welcome
to great big wonderful world of media consolidation, where we, the consumers,
will damn well take what's shoved down our throats.

[latrodectus]

They are NOT all the same.

Not in terms of ownership anyway.

Universal Music Group has, since 2006, been wholly owned
by the French conglomerate Vivendi SA. That year they bought out from Matsushita the last outstanding small stake which they had not acquired during their dealings with Seagrams.

Vivendi did acquire Universal Studios from Seagrams as well, but subsequently sold it to NBC. NBC-Universal is a subsidiary of General Electric.

There is some business overlap (UMG releasing soundtracks for some Universal Studios films, for example) however, for all intents and purposes they are now completely separate entities. That separation began in 2004 and
was complete by 2006.

[kinofile]

Except For The Parts That Are

Vivendi still has a 20% stake of NBC Universal.

http://www.nbcuni.com/About_NBC_Universal/Company_Overview