Ari Emanuel, co-CEO of William Morris Endeavor, spoke to an audience at the D10 conference about the importance of Google and other Silicon Valley tech companies helping Hollywood figure out a way to deal with online piracy.
“We need Northern California to figure out how to keep our intellectual property from being stolen,” he said.
Emanuel opposes the notion that TV viewers should have to pay only for what they want: “From subs to advertising, that’s $100 million into Hollywood. If we go a la carte, that drops to $40 million.”
He believes that “television business’s economics are better than it’s ever been” and shrugs off the idea that users will stop paying for content in what analysts describe as either “cord-cutting” or “cord-never.”
“I think when people get to a certain age, they pay,” he said. “Somebody’s got to pay for this, or you’re not going to get premium content, and I think that’s more valuable than ‘two dogs doing whatever they’re doing on a couch.'”
When discussing Google’s role in increased piracy on the Internet Emanuel notes that he does not want Google to censor search results, but thinks the company can do more to decrease piracy. He likens potential restrictions to pornography: “Look, Google can filter and does filter for child pornography. They do that already. So stealing is a bad thing, and child pornography is a bad thing.”
Ari Emanuel, co-CEO of William Morris Endeavor, spoke to an audience at the D10 conference about the importance of Google and other Silicon Valley tech companies helping Hollywood figure out a way to deal with online piracy.
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