Bad Company: EMI Says You Can't Store Your Music Files Online
In other words, major labels are still jerks.

well, the consumers say they can store it there.
so, i'd like to see EMI try to get their sass on with the lonley handful of people who even bother to buy over-priced major-label records.

it doesn't bode well for them.
the music industry is so whiny and arbitrary. i mean, the oil industry could have pitched a MUCH bigger fit about their situation, but instead they chose to change what they sell (fuel) and how they sell and market it (hybrids, biodiesel, ethanol, etc).
and music industry is stupidly stubborn, as if they assume the public will come back around.

but no no, we're done.

There's an opening for King Cnut in the music industry. He had a cool name too.

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I'm reminded of the Sex Pistols song EMI. EMI..goodbye.

I think this every time I see one of these articles. On one hand I can see where they're coming from because these sites are so overt - P2P networks are like swapping stolen goods under a pub table whereas upload sites are like walking around with a t-shirt on saying "ASK ME ABOUT THE CAR STEREOS I'M GIVING AWAY" (do people actually still nick car stereos? I hope I'm not sounding all fuddy-duddy here). But actions like this just draw attention to sites that people might not realise exists if they can't work sharing programs.

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You're right, but upload sites also are useful for storing your files if you're getting a new computer and don't want to buy a whole bunch of compact discs. It's not as if they have no legitimate purposes. If it wasn't for sites like yousendit I would have lost all of my music collection instead of half of it. If you buy something you should be able to use it on ANY machine you want and not have it be a big hassle to put it on another computer.

Erm, it would take hours on most people's connections to upload a CD-R's worth of content, not even accounting for throttling, other transactions and the like. I know people do use these sites for backups and innocent transfers but let's face it somewhere called 'MP3tunes.com' is going to be 99% straight-out copyright infringement.

But, as always, EMI need more carrot and less stick - positive reasons to move away from copying and other revenue streams rather than bleating about services that'll cost more than they're worth shutting down.

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Well, the courts say you can. So go fuck yourself, Guy Hands, I'm not paying $25 for a CD. It's really not going to happen.

And those artists out there who are on major labels complaining about lay offs can cut back on being financial toilets themselves.
Unless you're driving your own biobus and paying for your own crack I don't want to hear from your useless ass.

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