Edgar Bronfman admits to "inadvertently" going to war with music
consumers  By now, we're pretty certain you know how Warner
Music's head honcho feels about DRM and its necessity in the
digital download space, but apparently, the man behind not one,
but two CE-Oh Noes has experienced some form of epiphany.
MacUser has it that Edgar Bronfman admitted that the music
industry "used to fool itself" by thinking that its content was
"perfect just exactly as it was" while speaking at the GSMA
Mobile Asia Congress in Macau. He went on to say that it was
widely believed that the business would "remain blissfully
unaffected even as the world of interactivity, constant
connection and file sharing was exploding." He also noted that
it essentially went to war "inadvertently" with consumers by
"denying them what they wanted and could otherwise find." The
conversation was used in part to urge mobile operators to not
make the same mistakes again, and while we applaud such a figure
for coming forward with a bit of hard truth,