Warner Music CEO Says War With Consumers Was Wrong

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:"consumers won"?

[HTH NE1]

Then how come you're still shooting at us? It isn't easy being a copyright cop.

I don't go around gratuitously suing people and then brag about it in seedy IP lawyers' bars. I go around gratuitously suing people, and then I agonize about it afterwards to my children.

And I write legislation. Though I haven't anything new passed through Congress yet, so I better warn ya, I'm in a mean mood.