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We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

Barry Diller

No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
BARRY DILLER

Economic Issues Models Solve
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.
BARRY DILLER

Night Obvious People Screw Two
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
BARRY DILLER

Pain Reality World
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
BARRY DILLER

Firsts Publishing Transition
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
BARRY DILLER

Products Succeed Way
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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Surprise Want World
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
BARRY DILLER

Conduct Service Smallness
Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
BARRY DILLER

Being Done Done Twenties
My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it’s accessed by the world.
BARRY DILLER

Opinion People World
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
BARRY DILLER

Creative Different Internet
I’m never absolutely sure of anything, and I don’t want to be. You’re either right and you’ll pull through, or you’re not. We’re never going to be right about everything, and we’ve certainly been wrong.
BARRY DILLER

Anything Right Sure Want
We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
BARRY DILLER

Law Needs Steps
Facebook’s the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody’s personal information. It’s got a very good chance of being that.
BARRY DILLER

May Real Taken

We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

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