Media Execs Getting Nasty VS. Google

Media companies have started sending a message that they view Google as the enemy. Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons described Google and its ilk as Custer in his last stand.
“The Googles of the world, they are the Custer of the modern world. We are the Sioux nation,” Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Richard Parsons said, referring to the Civil War American general George Custer who was defeated by Native Americans in a battle dubbed “Custer’s Last Stand”.

Custer fell in a massacre, overwhelmed by a better-equiped army. No doubt Google wants to avoid his fate.
“They will lose this war if they go to war,” Parsons added, “The notion that the new kids on the block have taken over is a false notion.”

It’s funny, all this over user copyright violations. The RIAA mismanaged their war, attacking the consumer directly and causing a lot of bad blood, but before that […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg