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Re:Bertelsmann fallout by BenSnyder · 2000-11-09 03:50 · Score: 1 · on Analysis: Henhouse buys Fox

That link to the Dornemann resignation should be http://www.bmgentert ain ment.com/news/articles/11052000b.html, not the one to Zelnick's as above.

Sorry about that.

Bertelsmann fallout by BenSnyder · 2000-11-09 02:26 · Score: 1 · on Analysis: Henhouse buys Fox

I haven't seen any mention of it on /. but is anyone aware that Strauss Zelnick AND Michael Dornemann just resigned from BMG on November 5th?

There's no way that the Napster deal didn't have something to do with that. Dornemann is the number three guy and Zelnick is number four. Both oversee BMG Entertainment. In fact, Dornemann is the Chairman of BMG Entertainment and Zelnick is President and Chief Executive Officer of BMG Entertainment.

As one record producer I know put it: "It's like God and baby God just resigned."

I gotta think that the Napster deal and the resignations are somehow related. My guess is that Zelnick and Dornemann didn't move on Napster early enough and probably believed that the future of digital music didn't involve Napster. Middlehoff, meanwhile, knew that to get rid of Napster would be the worst thing that could happen to the labels. (Peer to peer networking without a central server sure does make it more difficult to serve subpoenas.) So I think he made the deal and then removed those who had held up the deal in the past.

Bertelsmann fallout by BenSnyder · 2000-11-09 02:26 · Score: 1 · on Analysis: Henhouse buys Fox

I haven't seen any mention of it on /. but is anyone aware that Strauss Zelnick AND Michael Dornemann just resigned from BMG on November 5th?

There's no way that the Napster deal didn't have something to do with that. Dornemann is the number three guy and Zelnick is number four. Both oversee BMG Entertainment. In fact, Dornemann is the Chairman of BMG Entertainment and Zelnick is President and Chief Executive Officer of BMG Entertainment.

As one record producer I know put it: "It's like God and baby God just resigned."

I gotta think that the Napster deal and the resignations are somehow related. My guess is that Zelnick and Dornemann didn't move on Napster early enough and probably believed that the future of digital music didn't involve Napster. Middlehoff, meanwhile, knew that to get rid of Napster would be the worst thing that could happen to the labels. (Peer to peer networking without a central server sure does make it more difficult to serve subpoenas.) So I think he made the deal and then removed those who had held up the deal in the past.