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Former EMI Chief Says it's 'Useless' to Fight P2P

By soulxtc

Per-Eirik Johansen says it's the music industry's fault that it's business model doesn't fit anymore, and that nobody has ever won a fight against new technology. For years we've listened to one record exec after another say to the world that file-sharing is killing the music industry and thus is must fight it until the very end, if only to prevent the industry from collapsing, even though that has been proved time and again to be completely false. It's been 10 years since they sued Napster and not only is the music industry still around, but so is illegal file-sharing. So it begs the question of whether the record execs leading these record labels actually believe in the policy or are they just toeing the party line? Former EMI boss Per-Eirik Johansen has thankfully given his opinion on illegal file-sharing to Norway's Dagbladet (GOOGLE TRANSLATION). Johansen, a former supporter of DRM, used to claim that these copy protection measures were necessary and the fight against pirates was crucial.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).