Former Google CIO says business misses key people marks - innovation, human resources, Google, Douglas Merrill, CIOs - Computerworld
When Merrill left Google he worked at EMI records, which was interesting and enjoyable, but he knew the music industry was “collapsing”.
“The RIAA said it isn’t that we are making bad music, but the ‘dirty file sharing guys’ are the problem,” he said. “Going to sue customers for file sharing is like trying to sell soap by throwing dirt on your customers.”
Merrill profiled the file sharing behaviour of people who used Limewire against the top iTunes sales and the biggest iTunes buyers were the same as the highest sharing “thieves” on Limewire.
“That’s not theft, that’s try-before-you-buy marketing and we weren’t even paying for it… so it makes sense to sue them,” he said wryly.
(via Instapaper)
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