Sony's recent digital rights management (DRM) fiasco highlighted the tightrope content producers employing DRM technologies are currently walking. Authors, artists and publishers now have the technological tools to better protect their digital creations but if they want consumers to pay for their digital work, they must find the right balance between copyright protection and customer expectations.
Quotes about fiasco (16 Quotes)
The other problem I had was with the debate the League held last year between Dick Black and David Poisson. It turned into a fiasco. There were ground rules that were agreed by both sides, and as soon as the debate started, the other side broke every rule. I was not happy with the way it was run.
The court views it as unfortunate for Secretary Rubin that he has been tarnished with this contempt citation, ... What personal involvement he has had in this fiasco is unknown to this court, but what is clear is that he has totally delegated his responsibility to others and they have miserably failed to comply with this court's orders.
Six years ago when I started this whole fiasco, there were not this many women in these positions to get the attention,
Teams are hesitant to compare one player's behavior with that of every other player on the team. That would just be a fiasco in terms of the team, all that dirty laundry aired.
Just say they took part in a major military action that was a total fiasco . . . 200 men, in the face of a North Vietnamese division of 8,000, who were told to stand and fight. Their chances were pretty slim.
Not so coincidentally, none of these companies have been implicated in the fund fiasco. It's a flight to quality, ... Investors as well as advisers are seeking out large, blue-chip fund companies that appear to have weathered the storm successfully.
The debilitating effect of the cabinet appointment fiasco is clearly nowhere as large as the cognoscenti would suggest.
It was necessary for me to make a political decision over the e-mail fiasco. I bear the heaviest political responsibility.
I liked the idea of fiasco as failure gone to church. How does that become a transcendent thing And that morphed into the different mini-themes.
I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war.
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Democracy in Iraq is a fiasco. Look, I too hoped Iraq would have a constitution, but if the people don't support this one, then we should have been happy the democratic process worked when it was defeated.
The encouraging thing is that in the aftermath of this fiasco everybody is outraged and the generosity of white suburban Republicans as well as black liberal Democrats indicates that the country wants better from its government and wants better from its politics, ... The burden is on us as Democrats, the burden is on me as a U.S. senator to help bridge that gap.
This Medicare Part D plan is a fiasco. It's much worse than people imagined. The problems are not simply problems of immediate implementation, but conception.
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.