Good point, Dennis,
It´s easy to put all the guilty on the Internet. But there´s many other questions on it. The neoliberal companies are allways trying to save some money, with or without web.
Nicolau
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> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 15:06:33 +0200
> From: "Don't t(h)read on my tentacles, Earthling!"
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> Subject: Re: [Kraftwerk] RE: if this is true :((((((((((
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> Le 02 avr. 2004, à 08:20, MuzikJunky a écrit :
>
> > Not an April Fools joke: EMI announced that they are closing the Uden
> > plant in the Netherlands and the Illinois plant in the USA. Future
> > North American CDs for EMI will be manufactured in Canada by Cineram
> > (which bought WEA Manufacturing/Ivy Hill recently). There was no
> > announcement regarding where EMI's European CDs will be manufactured,
> > but it's likely they'll be outsourced to an independent manufacturer
> > as well.
> >
> > DAMN YOU KIDS AND YOUR ILLEGAL MUSIC DOWNLOADING! Peace.
>
> Mind that last year was the 3rd best year for record companies despite
> the ecnonomics, and that a scientific search found out that there is
> direct correlation between the swapping of files and album sales, a
> POSITIVE correlation.
>
> Stop believing Majors PR BS.
>
> It's the small independents that are diying, and it's the economic
> situation fault.
>
> On EMI politics, they are just moving plants where it's the less
> expensive… typical neoliberal (economic sense, not the US politics non
> sense) approach of management.
>
> Denis =G)
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