Screw Universal.

I'll bet you UMG's CEO is just mad that he got some friend requests rejected.

Someone should sue Universal for not having anything good worth infringing.

A win for myspace would be a win for the internets, and a win for fox.

damn fat cat bureaucrats and their money.

i guess they do not have any acts with myspace pages? all of those labels that are distributed by fontana haven't used myspace to turn on a new fan? the biggest complaint that they can speak of is a U2 video with 2000 views? what's 2000 views to total revenue generated by that band? this is pathetic. it blows my mind that they spend their money and effort on something like this and look pathetic doing so instead of attempting to figure out new ways to sell their music in 2006.

but then again, why should we i be here to argue for fox...

these are the spastic machinations of the dying animal that is the major label industry, I look at it as a positive sign that indie bands and labels are winning this war

How are indie labels winning? Just like the majors, they have to sell their releases to make money. I guess if they don't spend as much on staff and promotion, they can sell far fewer records and still make a profit. On the other hand, there was the recent article on Yahoo! News (posted here by BV, IIRC) that quoted a number of indie label people who were very worried about Tower Records going out of business because Tower was much more willing to stock indie records than the remaining big chains are. They didn't sound like they were winning.