"The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers"
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A politician’s promise of “working with the technology sector” is never just about teamwork; it’s about managing a truce between two industries that would rather set the terms than share them. Dan Glickman’s line reads like cooperation, but it’s engineered to signal control: the movie business will participate in innovation so long as it can shape the pipes, the pricing, and the rules.
The phrasing does a lot of quiet work. “Committed” is a preemptive credibility claim, meant to blunt the familiar charge that Hollywood resists change until it can’t. “Innovative new ways” is a diplomatic placeholder that avoids naming the real battlefield issues: piracy, windowing, licensing, and who owns the customer relationship. And “deliver entertainment to consumers” frames the audience as endpoints, not citizens, subtly shifting the conversation away from culture and toward logistics. It’s Hollywood recasting itself as a service industry at the moment it’s being threatened with disintermediation.
Context matters: Glickman is best known for leading the Motion Picture Association after serving in government, which makes this statement a kind of bilingual messaging. To tech, it says: we’re open to partnership, don’t paint us as dinosaurs. To lawmakers, it says: industry self-regulation is underway, so keep heavy-handed policy at bay. To studios, it reassures: collaboration won’t mean surrender.
The real intent is not to celebrate disruption, but to domesticate it - to turn a potentially existential shift into a negotiated upgrade, with Hollywood still holding the keys.
The phrasing does a lot of quiet work. “Committed” is a preemptive credibility claim, meant to blunt the familiar charge that Hollywood resists change until it can’t. “Innovative new ways” is a diplomatic placeholder that avoids naming the real battlefield issues: piracy, windowing, licensing, and who owns the customer relationship. And “deliver entertainment to consumers” frames the audience as endpoints, not citizens, subtly shifting the conversation away from culture and toward logistics. It’s Hollywood recasting itself as a service industry at the moment it’s being threatened with disintermediation.
Context matters: Glickman is best known for leading the Motion Picture Association after serving in government, which makes this statement a kind of bilingual messaging. To tech, it says: we’re open to partnership, don’t paint us as dinosaurs. To lawmakers, it says: industry self-regulation is underway, so keep heavy-handed policy at bay. To studios, it reassures: collaboration won’t mean surrender.
The real intent is not to celebrate disruption, but to domesticate it - to turn a potentially existential shift into a negotiated upgrade, with Hollywood still holding the keys.
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