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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.'"

4 of 258 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Inadvertent post by Presto+Vivace · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm left wondering how you can file a series of lawsuits inadvertently. I wondered the same thing.

  2. relevant inf. fleeting, fluff abounds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    bird flu in england, lethal 'common cold' for US, the king is a fink.

    the lights are coming up all over now. see you there?

  3. Not Kool-Aid, Whiskey by good+soldier+svejk · · 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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    It is cowardly, and a betrayal of whatever it means to be a Jew, to act as a white man

    -James Baldwin
  4. Re:It's easy.... by sm62704 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The mods are going to lose some karma when I metamoderate, that's for sure. If your post was a troll, who were you trolling? I thought it was both interesting and insightful (and funny).

    Mod me offtopic.

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    mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest