Business Services Industry
Disney Chairman Eisner Raps Digital Piracy.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2002
By Greg Hernandez, Daily News, Los Angeles Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 1--Digital piracy threatens not only the fabric of the entertainment industry but the U.S. economy as well, Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael D. Eisner told a Senate committee Thursday.
Eisner, speaking before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, said that more than 350,000 pirated movies are downloaded from the Internet each day. He called upon Congress to enact open and common standards for technological protection of creative content in digital distribution.
"We know that we can never achieve -- and do not expect -- 100 percent content security," Eisner said. "But, there must be a reasonably secure environment to prevent widespread...
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
