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Out of the mouths of idiots.
Edgar Bronfman Jr., Warner Music's chairman and CEO, and the man who can turn any successful company into a failure, had this to say today:
He said he didn't support government interference in "what should be normal fair-market mechanisms," but praised mandatory requirements designed to filter pirated material from peer-to-peer networks and levies such as Canada's proposal, currently on hold, to tax iPods.So he is fine with government interference as long as he is the beneficiary. He neglects to mention that Canadian courts have ruled the iPod levy invalid, and the Apple will be refunding the money their customers were forced to spend."We like government levies when they benefit us," Bronfman said. "I would like none of the legislators in France, for instance, to say they should no longer pay us a levy for all the blank CDs that are being sold, (though) it doesn't make up for the revenue that we're losing...If the government mandated filtering technologies, we'd be delighted."
Tip of the hat to Boing Boing.