[04:42 PM EST - link]
on a pile of cash.
the Washington Post noted that Hollywood's mouthpiece in DC is the second-most-highly-paid trade association head in the US, pulling down $1.15 million in 2000.
granted, it's not the same kind of coin as some of his paymasters are earning: Viacom's Sumner Redstone, Disney's Mike Eisner, AOL Time Warner's Gerald Levin, and MGM's Alex Yemenidjian earned a combined $260 million last year (i couldn't find any numbers for Sony's Howard Stringer and the boys at DreamWorks SKG)
[12:13 PM EST - link]
a couple of Mac sites have noted that the "copy protection" on Celine Dion's latest CD from Sony can have some serious side-effects when used on Macintosh computers sporting the SuperDrive CD-RW/DVD-R combo drives. users report difficulty in getting the CD to eject, problems with subsequent reboots, and corrupt session data messing with drive's firmware.
perhaps Sony should be held financially accountable for the user's lost time. hell, i'd like to see Pioneer (makers of the SuperDrive) and Apple sue Sony for messing with their products (but that's not going to happen). (via bOingbOing)
