Miramax CEO says Apple is a threat to the music industry

Miramax better check that CEO, sounds like he be heading you in the wrong direction.

This type of talk and action we see from the film and TV industry is the reason why everyone is going back to torrenting movies and TV shows more. Look at Sunny in Philadelphia on Hulu, it's gone. They say you can watch episodes on FX site, not available. Good luck, you all are idiots and are likely to fail like the music industry. Don't blame it on Apple.

Not a great time to have a shot at Apple and get any one to listen. Apple revolutionised the industry giving consumers what they wanted.

Rubbish! Nobody else can come up with a damned good way of doing things, so apple take charge and do things pretty well, and you know what, consumers seem to like it! Music/Movie industries should pull their fingers out of their backsides and do something good for a change. Absolute fools. Sit there whining about stuff like this. Make your own damn digital locker then. Oh wait, the movie industry have with Ultraviolet - probably be rubbish anyway.

It's sad to say that maybe the Music industry at the time could have saved itself it it spent more time and money building something than suing teenagers and grandma's for downloading music illegally. Maybe the movie industry should learn from history.

Ridiculous. Apple is the conduit to prevent piracy. They are becoming the new distribution channel of music and eventually we will not have MP3s. iCloud will simply know what we "own" and what we don't and give us access to purchase and play anything we own on any device. Mark my word, the MP3 will die.

Maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but didn't the film industry as a whole just put up netflix's costs by around 10x ?

If any other company had their raw material costs raised by 10x, they'd go bust. Why should we feel any sympathy for these abusive personalities ?

I'm sure it's a challenge for music labels and movie studios to kill the regions, and together build one service where we can get any movie we want, wherever we are....

So many times have I wanted to rent a movie digitally, only to find that you can only buy it for £10 - and I download a pirated copy instead.

"As much as Lang wishes other companies share power in the digital music distribution scene, none of those companies stepped up to the plate to save the ailing music industry before Apple."

While it's indisputable that iTunes absolutely redefined music purchasing, the framing of Apple-as-saviour in a way that suggests it was something altruistic or philanthropic is preposterous.

They didn't "step up to the plate" to save the music industry, they saw an opportunity to capitalize on an industry in decline, and succeeded. They no more set out to "save" anything than Netflix or Hulu did in their recognizing an opportunity to capitalize on the Film and TV industries as the digital age marches on.

Miramax is bullshitting consumers in Japan. Give us what we want when we want. I even pay for it! I signed up for Hulu in JP, but Miramax is restricting their movies such that they only offer fully dubbed Japanese versions and not original language. Most Japanese watch the original with subtitles on dvds. Obviously that is what I want too. Language restrictions, dvd region codes etc.: give me a break! Movie industry, Miramax you do not understand!