Caner Dreams

Why are these three guys hanging out together on Caner Dreams? They represent this weeks 'We're finally starting to get it posse'.

First, we have Sony Electronic's president Stan Glasgow, who has said the "DRM would become less important" in their future. Well he's not just talking trash, EMI is leading the way.

Next up, George H. W. Bush's intelli-thug John Sununu. While he has some acts he still has to answer for this week he put the 180 IQ brain to work and told the FCC, "girlfriend, please!".

Lastly, we have Les Moonves, head honcho at CBS and David Letterman comedic foil. Although sometimes Dave is playing straight man to Les' riffs. In his keynote at CES this year he announced that fans of CBS show would be able to upload, mashup and generally have a good time with clips from CBS show. His also gets the 'I'm so getting this' award with this quote from an interview with AP, "If somebody spends the time to take 20 clips from 'CSI Miami,' I think that's wonderful,... That only makes him more involved with my show and want to come to CBS on Monday night and watch my show. And we're going to get paid for the clips this guy takes off our air as well. It's win, win." Huh?!?! What!?!? Executives realizing fans aren't the enemy but your supporter? It all can't be real!

If it seems that we will be living in a content sharing, DRM free, hardware not crippled world we not quite there yet. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Joseph Biden (D-DE), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) aka the 4 horsemen of the idiocy [Yeah, I know Dianne isn't a man but she's a consistent and total jerk] have introduced the "Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act" aka PERFORM bill. Which will force internet, cable and satellite providers to enact measures so that consumers of their content can't record it. As we have seen before those paying customers are always waiting to suck the innocent corporations dry.

// posted by baltimoron @ 9:45 AM