Universal Music Group CEO Explains Why Record Industry Hasn't Got a (Digital) Clue
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Ever wonder why the music industry's response to and handling of the whole digital revolution is so clueless?Because (according to the CEO at *Universal Music Group*)they're even clueless as to how to find a clue!A recent piece entitled "*Universal Music CEO Doug Morris Speaks, Recording Industry in Even Deeper Shit Than We Thought*":http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/11/universal_music_ceo_doug_morris.html in New York Magazine quotes a "*profile of the institution in question*":http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/15-12/mf_morris, and reveals that (according to him) they don't even know who to ask to *find out* who to ask...
Dinosaur, with fossilised dinosaur shit.)
("*Click here for a sample of a different version of Write Your Own Song*":http://electronictiger.com/avail/song.mp3, a duet with Asleep at the Wheel's Ray Benson.)
Howie Klein (as a former industry insider and lebel head) has "*a few things to say*":http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-to-destroy-profitable-industry-in.html, too."There's no one in the record industry that's a technologist," Morris explains. "That's a misconception writers make all the time, that the record industry missed this. They didn't. They just didn't know what to do. It's like if you were suddenly asked to operate on your dog to remove his kidney. What would you do?"Even though we shouldn't be, we're actually a little shocked. We'd always assumed the labels had met with a team of technology experts in the late nineties and ignored their advice, but it turns out they never even got that far — they didn't even try!
Personally, I would hire a vet. But to Morris, even that wasn't an option. "We didn't know who to hire," he says, becoming more agitated. "I wouldn't be able to recognize a good technology person — anyone with a good bullshit story would have gotten past me."
Dinosaur, with fossilised dinosaur shit.)
("*Click here for a sample of a different version of Write Your Own Song*":http://electronictiger.com/avail/song.mp3, a duet with Asleep at the Wheel's Ray Benson.)
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