Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Corporate Parenting

So if Corporate(RIAA/MPAA) is a Parent and Consumer the child, Corporate didn't practice some basic parenting skills. Starting with Napster, consumers were not behaving.. They slapped consumer, and said no and took Napster away. New ways were found to not behave by the consumer, again, heavy handed parenting took place with law suits and threats. This leads to contempt and other issues with the consumer/child. The parenting skill is this, when a child is doing something wrong, you let them know, and then offer an alternative activity to replace the original. The RIAA/MPAA as soon as Napster hit the internet should have been looking for the alternative activity, instead they used heavy handed tactics. Now it will take many years of therapy to bring the consumer/corporate relationship back to a decent working level.