Perhaps I'm far too mired in the war for intellectual property in the world's various legal jurisdictions, but I didn't gain much of Anderson's promised 'new insight' on the MPAA's modus operandi in learning about Glickman. He details the MPAA's strategy of enlisting ISPs like AT&T in the war on consumers. He quotes Glickman's solution to piracy: "Technology will be the key."
It all adds up to the same thing we've known all along. That is that the MPAA doesn't understand the "series of tubes," the studios they represent don't understand how to change, and that their war on consumers is based on faulty math and abuse of government processes (both legislative and judicial).
Furthermore, while Glickman admits that "you will never stop piracy," he believes its because "traditional organized criminals would drool" over the margins made by pirates, as opposed to an actual understanding of the sociological and psychological driving factors in the pirate community (not to mention why the casual P2P user grabs a movie).
I find it simply ridiculous that in a world where online content producers are literally clamoring for eyeballs, willing to sell out their grandmother and begging via twitter for new promotional ideas that the old guard won't wise up and realize exactly what an unimaginable asset it has on its hands with the wide distribution of their media.
[via Ars Technica]