Warner Music CEO Says War With Consumers Was Wrong

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 16, 2007 @06:20AM 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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Re:Inadvertent post by Presto+Vivace · 2007-11-16 06:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'm left wondering how you can file a series of lawsuits inadvertently. I wondered the same thing.
Not Kool-Aid, Whiskey by good+soldier+svejk · 2007-11-16 07:19 · Score: 1, Offtopic

You're drinking his kool-aid.
The Bronfmans made Whiskey, not Kool-Aid. Admittedly, Sam Bronfman bent some ethical rules smuggling product through Capone's Chicago organization during prohibition, but overall the family has a good rep.

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