the money pit

Sad news today about NBC. They’re about to lose a lot of money by making their TV shows available through SanDisk’s video download service (I knew, who knew they had one). As we all know from what NBC has been telling the WGA, they don’t make any money selling videos online so clearly they’re going to go bankrupt by doing this. Said SanDisk President Sanjay Mehrota,

SanDisk is committed to providing consumers a vast collection of legitimate content [for promotional purposes only, coughed studio executives], while protecting the rights of content owners [who will then screw content creators out of any money made] with technology solutions such as watermarking.

So let’s all have a moment of silence for those poor executives at NBC who will likely soon be shivering in the cold as we all know burning fifty dollar bills doesn’t generate as much heat as burning one hundred dollar bills. Thank goodness they’re standing up to the writers or they might even have to settle for heating their homes with forty-nine dollar bills.