EMI to embrace digital?
I love to bash EMI because they were at the forefront of corporate attempts at stifling the interactions and subsequent creative possibilities in a networked world when they forced OLGA off the net in 1996. There's no coincidence between Radiohead's contract with EMI expiring, Radiohead shocking the music industry by offering it's upcoming album direct to listeners at whatever price they're willing to pay (or 40 pounds if you want it on physical media including all sorts of fancy extras), and EMI's new private equity owner saying they must embrace digital music or die. But with that guy being rumoured to be planning to sell EMI to Warner and EMI's long history with fighting modernisation, I'm not expecting much here beyond words and further attempts at mildly warping their business into something internet related...no fundamental shift in how they do business.

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