Warner Music CEO Says War With Consumers Was Wrong
taken from http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/11/16/1733216.shtml
l2718 writes
"Edgar Bronfman, CEO of the Warner Music Group, has publicly framed the music industry's failure to accommodate file-sharing as an 'inadvertent' war on consumers. I'm left wondering how you can file a series of lawsuits inadvertently. 'We expected our business would remain blissfully unaffected even as the world of interactivity, constant connection and file sharing was exploding ... By ... moving at a glacial pace, we inadvertently went to war with consumers by denying them what they wanted and could otherwise find and as a result of course, consumers won.'"
reminds me of http://xkcd.com/86/
too bad, the 'war' still isn't over. Too bad there are still lawsuits. Too bad I am still not buying any music! Concerts are still the best way to support artists and I still can't play the music I buy wherever I want (legally)!
l2718 writes
"Edgar Bronfman, CEO of the Warner Music Group, has publicly framed the music industry's failure to accommodate file-sharing as an 'inadvertent' war on consumers. I'm left wondering how you can file a series of lawsuits inadvertently. 'We expected our business would remain blissfully unaffected even as the world of interactivity, constant connection and file sharing was exploding ... By ... moving at a glacial pace, we inadvertently went to war with consumers by denying them what they wanted and could otherwise find and as a result of course, consumers won.'"
reminds me of http://xkcd.com/86/
too bad, the 'war' still isn't over. Too bad there are still lawsuits. Too bad I am still not buying any music! Concerts are still the best way to support artists and I still can't play the music I buy wherever I want (legally)!