Just when it looked like we had some new smart management in at EMI it seems they are slipping back again into the mindless mold.
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15210Based in the UK and one of the Big 4 record labels, the others being Warner Music, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, EMI had planned to stop paying its share of cash dolled out to the corporate copyright cop.
“On the verge of abandoning its role in helping to subsidise Big 4 organised music cartel enforcement unit the IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry), and accused of blowing hundreds of thousands of pounds on wine, women and song, EMI says it will slash as many as 2,000 jobs from its recorded music division,” p2pnet posted in January.
Now, “both sides agreed to reduce the amount the London-based label and others pay towards the fight against piracy,” says Reuters.
But, “analysts had said any significant cut in funding to groups such as the IFPI, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and other national associations could hamper the fight against Internet piracy,” says the story, going on, “A spokesman for the IFPI, which also looks to safeguard the rights of record producers and expand the commercial use of music, said it had agreed a ’sensible, appropriate and reasonable reduction in our budget’.”
So what we are really seeing is maybe a face saving bit of publicity with EMI looking like they are still paying heavy dollars to fund the lunacy campaign of suing the old the young and the dead, but in reality they are no doubt paying very little, lets keep our eyes open for signs of which way EMI are really playing the game, is their policy to meet the consumers demand their priority or just enlarge their corporate expense accounts ?
