Don't Download But Buy Our Players to Play it!

I know, talking about corporate hypocrisy is like talking about Uwe Boll’s bad directing—it is just plain repetitive and tiresome. Sometimes though, they would do thing so obviously contradicting that it is shocking that no one is paying notice. Case in point is the actions of the electronic consumer product divisions and the entertainment divisions of major conglomerates. Sony for example owns both entertainment companies and consumer product companies. Sony entertainment is making nose and fighting hard on all legal fronts to “combat” Internet piracy. Sony electronics however is producing DVD players that play DIVX, XVID and MP3 formats. The only people I know who use these formats are downloaders, the practitioners of the same Internet piracy that Sony’s entertainment divisions are so vehemently trying to stop. Now the new Sony, and other major brands’, DVD players freed the downloaded movies to be played on any TV in high quality. It is cynicism at full bloom—while they fight to protect their financial interest on one side, they try to make money by exploiting the illegal activities on the other. They just want to make as much money as the can regardless any law or principle.