Help wanted: CTO at Warner Music.

Gill_Bates writes "It looks like Warner music group are looking for a CTO. I'm intrigued by the sentence that reads "Builds prototypes and evaluates alternatives for on-line music delivery, P2P warfare, copy protection, etc." " How many job descriptions include the phrase "Warfare"?

Comments

it's a job

[lexcyber]

It pay's money - so there will always be someone applying. - Money make people do stupid things. - As always. Money often win over ideology. - I hope they find some braindead sucker that will do a pisspoor job.

It's time for the mucichians to wake up and understand they can do their own distribution. - The time for the big record labels are numbered. Soon they will wanish in a fading cloud of historydust. And the no-talent marketingdroids that claim they know what the "market" want will be no more....

Yes, I have an utopian dream, help me get to it.

Re:it's a job

[avante]

I think that P2P warefare IS an ideology.

Re:it's a job

[Reality Master 101]

Insofar as slashdotism is the unfettered persuit of self interest it is libertarian.

Libertarianism is not "unfettered" pursuit of self interest, it's the "fair" pursuit of self interest where everyone has a level playing field. Of course, "level playing field" is a loaded statement, since many people believe that the government should "level" the field through a lot of artificial means. But that's a debate for another day. I will say this: contrary to popular opinion, Libertarians are NOT for monopolies, and most support action where it's warranted. [aside: probably few think Microsoft is warranted, and I would probably agree]

Slashdotism often wants to take from the producers of society and give it to everyone else. That's socialism.

The problem is that the essence of libertariaism is the rejection of all social obligations.

Once again, although I don't subscribe to Libertarian philosphy in all its "beauty", I have to defend them on this. Libertarians believe very strongly in social obligations -- through neighbor to neighbor obligations, not government to neighbor. The government forcibly taking from one person to give to another breeds resentment in the takee, and the faceless nature of it breeds dependency on the taker. Not to mention the extreme inefficiency. For these reasons, charity should be done voluntarily and locally.

Slashdotism is all about community

To some extent; OSS is often about community. But don't fool yourself that stealing music, software or patents is about community. That's about blatent "gimme gimme gimme for free".

First Let's Kill All Our Customers

[jodo]

God this is entertaining entertainment.I have noticed at least two tv ad campaigns that feature consumers downloading and burning music. Implying it is a cool and totally normal thing to do. I think the majors are fighting a war they have already lost.

'warfare'

[Valar]

Not many companies would put 'warfare' in a job descriptions firstly because few are in a mindset that they at war (i.e. the goal is to destroy, not that the goal is to make profit by selling goods), and secondly because not many companies can get away with it. People would think Coca-Cola completely daft if they asked for a CTO to help shut down Pepsi's website. Now mind you, pretty much everyone admits that Pepsi's actions are more or less legal. That, however, doesn't make it any less excusible because vigalantism is supposidly illegal. That's my 2*10^-2*dollars.

Wow, they're doing this overtly?

[SexyKellyOsbourne]

It surprised me that they were declaring p2p warfare OVERTLY, but then again, didn't Congress pass a bill that would give blank checks to allow p2p networks to be hacked by record companies, ie. distributing fake-hashed files to corrupt everything on the network and so forth?

We should all mass apply and /. effect the job application -- posting "p2p warfare" is a blatant display of corporate immorality and thuggery, and it threatens our freedom.

Out of context..

[stratjakt]

Umm, what I read wasn't P2P warfare.. I read this:

"... evaluates alternatives for on-line music delivery, P2P warfare, copy protection, etc."

later I read:

"Analyzes all industry wide technological developments and initiatives related to music and music distribution in an effort to help company sustain its competitive advantage in the music technology marketplace."

Alternatives to P2P warfare. I think they realise its just not cost-effective to have a bunch of people sitting around trying to hack everyone who's running KaZaa.

Looks to me like they want someone to come up with realistic solutions and strategies that will work in the real world. Seems they want to 'Adapt or Die'.

"Requirements
A college degree or equivalent experience is required in engineering, computer science. Specific knowledge and experience in new media and new technologies is required."

Purely speculation: Their old CTO probably favored the old-school 'sue em all' approach, that's probably why he's lining up for food stamps, and why the particular wording of the job offer. Looks like they want a new direction, not to just bump another talking head into the post.