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Warner Music CEO Says War With Consumers Was Wrong

Posted by Zonk on from the couldn't-have-figured-this-out-two-years-ago dept.

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.'"

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  1. Doubletalk by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 3, Informative

    Saying the war with consumers WAS (past tense) wrong, implies that the war has finished already. But what about the College Opportunity and Affordability Act, concerning colleges and filesharers?

    No, the war ain't over, and we haven't won yet. But be warned: We WILL win. Sooner or later, we will win. Whether you make peace with us or are mercilessly defeated, depends on you.