While talking to the Senate Commerce Committee about the threat computer piracy poses to music and movie distribution, the Walt Disney Co.'s CEO Michael Eisner accused computer makers of America of profiting from the thefts.
"The 'killer app' for the computer industry is piracy," Eisner said, showing a remarkably narrow of the 25 year computer revolution. "They think their short-term growth is predicated on pirated content."
In his defense, Eisner's bomb-throwing highlights increasing movie thefts on the net, mirroring the digital music trading that went nuts with Napster a few years ago. Specifically, Eisner attacked Apple Computer's "Rip. Mix. Burn," ad campaign.
It promises "that they can create a theft if they buy this computer," Eisner said.
Here's hoping he, and other movie distributors, won't make the same mistake the music industry did, namely, relying on a distribution system from the 1910s in an age with broadband modems.
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