Ousted EMI boss: suing pirates is bad for business

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Submission + - Ousted EMI boss: suing pirates is bad for business (boingboing.net)

Submitted by derGoldstein on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @08:22AM

derGoldstein writes: From BoingBoing: "Douglas C Merrill, who left his job as Google’s CIO to be EMI’s Chief Operating Officer of New Music and President of Digital Business has given a speech in which he claims that EMI’s own research confirmed that P2P music downloaders were the label’s best customers." An excerpt: "For example, there’s a set of data that shows that file sharing is actually good for artists. Not bad for artists. So maybe we shouldn’t be stopping it all the time. I don’t know"

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