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In testimony before a Senate committee in February 2002,
2002年2月，在呈給參議院委員會的一份聲明里，
Michael Eisner blasted the ads that Jobs had created for Apple's iTunes.
邁克爾·艾斯納嚴厲批評了喬布斯為蘋果iTunes制作的廣告。
"There are computer companies that have full-page ads and billboards that say: Rip, mix, burn," he declared
“某些計算機公司在整版的廣告和廣告牌上寫著‘扒歌、混制、刻錄’，”他發表聲明稱。
"In other words, they can create a theft and distribute it to all their friends if they buy this particular computer."
換句話說，所有買這款計算機的人可以去偷竊，并把這個成果散布給他們的朋友。”
This was not a smart comment. It misunderstood the meaning of "rip" and assumed it involved ripping someone off,
這并不是個髙明的評論。它誤讀了“扒歌”的意思，認為廣告中有引導大眾“偷竊他人財物”的嫌疑，
rather than importing files from a CD to a computer.
其實這是指從CD上把文件輸入計算機。
More significantly, it truly pissed off Jobs, as Eisner should have known. That too was not smart.
更嚴重的是，這條消息徹底把喬布斯激怒了，艾斯納應該預計到這一點。這仍然不高明。
Pixar had recently released the fourth movie in its Disney deal, Monsters, Inc.,
皮克斯最近剛推出了與迪士尼合作的第四部電影《怪物公司》，
which turned out to be the most successful of them all, with $525 million in worldwide gross.
并一舉超過前三部，全球票房達到5.25億美元。
Disney's Pixar deal was again coming up for renewal,
到了迪士尼和皮克斯即將續約的日子，
and Eisner had not made it easier by publicly poking a stick at his partner' s eye.
艾斯納并沒有把事情變得更簡單，還在參議院上公開拆臺。
Jobs was so incredulous he called a Disney executive to vent: "Do you know what Michael just did to me?"
喬布斯覺得難以置信，他打電話給迪士尼的一位高層發泄不滿：“你們知道邁克爾對我做了什么嗎？”
