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Telcom Industry a bunch of GIRLS

Feb 20, 2006 7:10AM PST

Apologies to the women in the forum (and especially Molly and Veronica), but this report from EETimes (via Ars.Technica) is about the funniest thing I have seen in awhile:

http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180203263

This is the quote that is making the rounds:

"Why are you such a bunch of big girls?" asked Birch. "Why don't you tell the content owners to just get stuffed?" He continued unabated: "You're too seduced by the content industry, Hollywood is not even a $10 billion industry. Hollywood is small compared to the telecom industry. Why don't you take a stronger line? Consumers don't want DRM at all. You can't sell DRM."

I almost nose spit my lemonade when I read it.

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I think it's great
Feb 20, 2006 9:19AM PST

I laughed at it with a coworker today as soon as we saw it.
What makes it even better, is that the guy has a good point, the tech industry should stand up for the consumer (not that they will, but hope is alive) and not submit to the evil stupidity that is DRM.

-Ryan

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It's as if...
Feb 20, 2006 9:46AM PST

...the telecom companies have no one in house that can help them to think of themselves as anything other than content providers.

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(NT) (NT) I wish I could have been there for that! LOL
Feb 20, 2006 1:25PM PST
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not even a fake one
Feb 21, 2006 10:42AM PST

i like how none are then on the panel could even come up with some kind of defense to justify there actions and that sad