The B P D G Was a Soft War on the All American Culture Industry

Sony was defeated in victory. After acquiring a string of us. Entertainment companies, it found itself hopelessly compromised,. transformed into a timid industry follower. No better example of this exists than soni's failure to launch an m p three player. The company that brought us the walk man, poster child for home taping as killing music, was so cowed that it sat out the portable digital music revolution. Sony was playing in a polite market place. Rather than making the best devices it could conceive of, it made d ices whose driving ethos was, don't piss off the content barons. Eigt years of litigation ended with a landmark supreme court ruling in sony's