Honestly, both. In most industries, you have a lot of decent, normal folks and a handful of lunatic ball-dents flailing about. Big Content is the opposite, almost all leadership is nuttier than a freight train full of trail mix, and conduct themselves like goddamn sociopaths from an episode of CSI.
Things I recall being asked for in meetings with these firms:
1. was it possible to DDos Google (because they were the course of all piracy)? They didn't ask in so many words, but it was effectively what they asked for. Whether the realized the legality of it at the beginning of the meeting, they were disabused of that as an option, promptly.
2. How could we take down the company hat "hosted all the bittorrent"?
etc
3. Screaming fits on the phone I wouldn't expect from a teething infant let a lone a grown-ass adult.
4. Execs claiming they hired someone on staff for their cup size (into roles they had no qualification for)
5. Regular meltdowns over actual fair use content (reviews, critiques, etc), when after being told it would likely be overturned after we sent a DMCA, demanded it anyway, then screamed when it was in fact overturned on appeal, and blamed us for not somehow making subverting IP law a feature of our business.
Honestly, both. In most industries, you have a lot of decent, normal folks and a handful of lunatic ball-dents flailing about. Big Content is the opposite, almost all leadership is nuttier than a freight train full of trail mix, and conduct themselves like goddamn sociopaths from an episode of CSI.
Things I recall being asked for in meetings with these firms: 1. was it possible to DDos Google (because they were the course of all piracy)? They didn't ask in so many words, but it was effectively what they asked for. Whether the realized the legality of it at the beginning of the meeting, they were disabused of that as an option, promptly. 2. How could we take down the company hat "hosted all the bittorrent"? etc 3. Screaming fits on the phone I wouldn't expect from a teething infant let a lone a grown-ass adult.
4. Execs claiming they hired someone on staff for their cup size (into roles they had no qualification for)
5. Regular meltdowns over actual fair use content (reviews, critiques, etc), when after being told it would likely be overturned after we sent a DMCA, demanded it anyway, then screamed when it was in fact overturned on appeal, and blamed us for not somehow making subverting IP law a feature of our business.
It's a cretinous turd parade.
...all...bloody...nuts.