defending business models

Windmill operators sabotaging electric motor factories, horse breeders spreading tacks on the roads, trees desperately holding on to their leaves in the autumn...

...RIAA fighting their fans, Italian shoe manufacturers lobbying politicians to stop import from China.

Life.is.all.about.cycles. Accept it.

Such people should be shrugged off and sent to a two week history course.

But these guys? No, they're too smart - they take hostages.

And the hostages are always the weakest, the ones that are easy to sympathise with. Poor artists, low paid workers... with a perfectly spun story that is hard to fight without sounding like a callous profiteer. And the politicians falls into that trap like the blind sheep they are.

Business.models.changes. Live with it.

Call the RIAA and the ANCI on their bluff, tell them to cut out the hostage taking and do what they (the managers) are supposed to do:

Move on and become better, change your business model now or choose to die quietly without more fuss... I'm no big fan of deceptive dramas of positively Wagnerian proportions!

But I do like people who'd rather be nimble with their business model... maybe I should send Sony, Warner, BMG and the other silly sopranos a version of my software... ;)

[Inspired by Cory Doctorow of course!]