Music Mafia “urges” mobile phone industry
The music industry really is used to getting things its own way!
Kind of like a bratty two year old… if it were armed to the brim with greed, corrupt lawyers and a complete lack of conscience.
One such “entertainment company” just started making demands of the mobile phone industry.
And as if bullying musicians and artists into bankruptcy (both financially and in terms of an intellectual property catalogue) and persecuting their customers at every opportunity was not enough!
Warner’s chief just used a bunch of euphemisms to say that the mobile phone industry had better sell more music through their phones or Apple and Google would take the lion’s share of those earnings.
What he really means is that if the mobile phone industry doesn’t improve its music offerings they’ll be very pissed for not giving Warner as much money as they want, and they’d have no reason to tell Apple and Google to stop asking for a reasonable rate of royalties because “none of the other companies are getting that much” - right?
And then, of course, for not pouring more cash down the greed-hole, they’d sue resistant companies the first chance they got (you used a copyrighted sample in your ad without realizing? Bang!).
Okay, maybe I’m being a tad melodramatic, but the bullyish way these mobsters are dealing with other industries isn’t going to earn them any friends.
All the major label artists are leaving the record companies as soon as they get the chance, and I think that soon enough those independent artists will be the first choice of the phone companies when they feel like ‘improving their music offerings’ on their networks.
I don’t blame them. I sure like watching the Sopranos… but I wouldn’t crack a business deal with that kind of business!
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