Don't Stop The Music

In the words of Rihanna: "please don't stop the music":

According to NBC chief executive, Jeff Zucker in the article "NBC executive slams Apple for killing music industry", Apple is doing exactly what the title implies - destroying the music industry. But is it really? In fact, Apple has "rescued the industry from irrelevance". CD sales have decreased, but Apple has promoted the sale of individual, downloaded songs for a fixed price. And download sales have soared.

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So why is there all this hatred for Apple by NBC? The verdict appears to be that NBC is afraid Apple will do the same to it - kill the business. Recently, NBC pulled their TV episodes from iTunes due to a "decreased revenue" (although revenue was around the $15 million mark!). It appears that NBC (or at least just Jeff Zucker) did not agree with Apple's set price for all episodes. Zucker also claims that Apple refused to pay "NBC a cut of the iPod hardware sales". Apparently NBC's episodes contributed highly to iPod sales, or so Zucker thinks. But if you think about it...what about the money received from TV manufacturers? Is NBC getting a cut from their hardware sales? I don't think so.

First off Zucker has recently made numerous attacks on various other companies such as YouTube for stealing its programming.

Other recent (and ridiculous) statements made by NBC have included how law enforcement should spend less money on traditional crime and focus more on piracy and couterfeiting (I'm sure the little old lady who's house gets broken into will really appreciate that) or there's the comment concerning corn farmers. According to NBC, due to piracy, there are less ticket sales and less popcorn sales which means that corn growers are losing money. If there was less piracy, then the popcorn sales would increase, farmer's profits would increase and would grant them the ability to buy more farming equipment. This statement is utterly ridiculous! First off, movie theatres are not struggling, and secondly, any one watching movies at home can eat popcorn too. Soon enough, there will be a demand for a "cut of the profits corn farmers make, since, after all they're "profiting off the backs of the movie industry" without paying the industry for the benefit".

Basically, NBC needs to clean up its act and fire Zucker. He is causing more grief for the company and the others that he is so moronic-ly attacking.

So the real question should be:

Is Jeff Zucker killing television?!