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Apple is like Little Richard and Microsoft is like Pat Boone

One of the reasons why “intellectual property” is so important to big media companies is that creative commons footage of Pat Boone singing Tutti Frutti can surely be used against him. Digital rights management promises to be one of the mechanisms of censorship in the western tradition of centralized monarchy.

The original singer of Tutti Frutti is Little Richard. Once you hear him sing the song you will begin to understand why Pat Boone attempted to even come near it with any insincere forms of flattery. Now when you run the numbers, my wild, uninformed guess is that Pat Boone made more money off of his wack-ass version of the song than Little Richard. And this is the exact same wack-ass, billion-dollar situation Microsoft has enjoyed with respect to Apple for decades.

So now the industry is buzzing with Microsoft’s Zune vs. Apple’s iTunes. And Microsoft fully expects to sell more corn beef hash than filet mignon. This is just the latest chapter in this decades-long “gentleman’s agreement” between those who are truly creative and those who you see on television everyday.

Now Little Richard is not a barrel of flawless peaches. There is that terrible story I read about what he did to Jimi Hendrix… but when we start messing with Jimi Hendrix we have to leave the whole property game behind and move into other states of consciousness… So, under the corny circumstances, Apple is like Little Richard and Microsoft is like Pat Boone—but no one in this candy-ass cracker-ass business world is like Jimi Hendrix. Technology had to be modified to deal Jimi wah-wah with the “real” world. The entrepreneur is one thing; the force of nature is another thang, baby…

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