Episode #76: Dear Hollywood, Give Up: Lessons from Napster, Netflix, and the Inevitable
In this episode of the Stewart Squared podcast, host Stewart Alsop III speaks with his father Stewart Alsop II about the ongoing battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley, focusing on the Warner Brothers Discovery saga involving potential buyers Netflix and Paramount (backed by tech investor David Ellison). Stewart Alsop II argues that Hollywood needs to stop "clutching their pearls" and accept that technology always wins in media—pointing to how this same pattern played out with Napster and the music industry. The conversation explores how the media landscape has shifted from broadcast…
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