Comment Re:At some point poking the beast will not be wise (Score 2) 226
I've watched that talk before, and while the message is interesting, she casually (and frequently) glosses over the fact that her industry is literally about putting the clothes on people's backs. It should be surprising to no one in the audience that people buy food and clothing more than CDs and DVDs.
If I recall correctly she even talks about how their industry requested and was
I'll emphasize again that the talk has a lot of interesting points about innovation and reuse of ideas, but implying that leisure and luxury industries can adopt similar strategies and see similar results seems specious.