logical
very.
you can't keep shaking the tree. get out of that mode of self-denial.
you got to stop and let it grow.
which way, i really have to fucking clue.
but maintaining a stance of "er, i dunno, er, download, er, cd, er, drm, er no drum, er, er, er" is not going to take anything, anywhere.
make a decision and act on it. now.
i don't care if a lawyer or an accountant makes that decision. they know more about the limits and capabilities of law and money more than i ever will.
but don't let drummers do the decision making. please don't. bad choice in the 20th century, band choice in the 21st.
once the larger companies make their minds up, then work-for-hire people such as myself, can actually think about what to do within the given circumstances.
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Sony BMG chief out to make his mark
By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in London
Published: October 7 2007 22:10 | Last updated: October 7 2007 22:10
Rolf Schmidt-Holtz became chief executive of Sony BMG in February 2006 in unpromising circumstances, and has faced a threat to his company’s very existence ever since.
Last week, that challenge was lifted when the European Commission cleared the 2004 merger of Sony and Bertelsmann’s recorded music businesses for the second time. The review was a “distraction”, Mr Schmidt-Holtz admits, but then insists “we are moving on.”
Mr Schmidt-Holtz is out to show he can find a new business model for an age of bewildering digital developments and plunging CD sales.
“Somebody needed to step up and say, ‘Guys, this isn’t good enough’,” he says. This has involved some blunt messages to senior executives. “We had a situation where the executives thought they were artists.”
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007