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Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

Barry Diller

You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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Advertising Trying Want
If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
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Drug Epiphany Kind
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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Firsts Publishing Transition
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Economic Issues Models Solve
We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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Law Needs Steps
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
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Enough Smart World
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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Products Succeed Way
Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
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Children Community Hollywood
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Pain Reality World
The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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Entertainment Ideas Years
The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can’t give them that but let’s always keep it in mind.
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Night Obvious People Screw Two
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
People have paid for content. They always have.
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Always Content Paid People
The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
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Rooms Running World

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