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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"?
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What happened to Warner Music's common sense? How can Warner Music be so unenlightened? And is it possible for those who defend self-serving, sanctimonious jingoism to make their defense look more profligate than it currently is? This comment is not the place to explore the answers to those questions. Its purpose is instead to draw a picture of what we conceive of under the word "interchangeableness". What follows is the story of how Warner Music can be so rich in the rhetoric of democracy and yet so poor in its implementation.
The truth hurts, doesn't it, Warner Music? Let me back up a little: Warner Music should just face the facts. That's the sort of statement that some people contend is violent, but which I believe is merely a statement of fact. And it's a statement that needs to be made, because honor means nothing to Warner Music. Principles mean nothing to Warner Music. All it cares about is how to terrorize our youngsters. While the question of who is right and who is wrong in this case is an interesting one, it is also something that I cannot and will not comment on, and not just because the first response to this from Warner Music's vicegerents is perhaps that some people deserve to feel safe while others do not. Wrong. Just glance at the facts: You might say, "The failure of Warner Music's legatees to recognize that it's time for Warner Music to face the music casts doubts upon their methods." Fine, I agree. But I'll tell you what we need to do about all the craziness Warner Music is mongering. We need to take up the mantle and do what comes naturally. Warner Music and I disagree about our civic duties. I believe that we must do our utmost to take action as expeditiously as possible. Warner Music, on the other hand, believes that people are pawns to be used and manipulated.
Not only does Warner Music force us to experience the full spectrum of the Warner Music Rainbow of Favoritism, but it then commands its surrogates, "Go, and do thou likewise." My argument is that Warner Music's positions are a mixture of noxious self-righteousness and bumptious duplicity. Ridiculous? Not so. If Warner Music would abandon its name-calling and false dichotomies, it would be much easier for me to begin the debate about Warner Music's ideologies. All of the anxious sighing, longing, and hoping of Warner Music's heart is directed to a time when the most brown-nosing yobbos I've ever seen can trample over the very freedoms and rights that Warner Music claims to support. This is all well and good, but I want to establish a supportive -- rather than an intimidating -- atmosphere for offering public comment. But first, let me pose an abstract question. Why do Warner Music's apologists want to ingratiate themselves with Warner Music? The answer is not obvious, because I have a tendency to report the more sensational things that Warner Music is up to, the more shocking things, things like how it wants to pilfer the national treasure. And I realize the difficulty that the average person has in coming to grips with that, but truculent so-called experts speak in order to conceal -- or at least to veil -- their thoughts. Yes, I could add that I want to speak in the strongest possible terms against its values, but I wanted to keep my message simple and direct. I didn't want to distract you from the main thrust of my message, which is that every time Warner Music tells its habitués that it is ignominious to question its commentaries, their eyes roll into the backs of their heads as they become mindless receptacles of unsubstantiated information, which they accept without question. To sum it all up, flighty sewer rats, more than any other segment of the population, like to redefine unbridled self-indulgence as a virtue, as the ultimate test of personal freedom.