If I Ran a Major Record Label…

I was recently asked by my friends over at Coffee Shop Magazine how I would go about running a major label.  I thought it was a great question.  Considering the fact that I’m always bombing on the majors, I figure it’s time for me to outline the steps I would take if I were in control!  (Fat chance of that!)

NY Court Rules in Favor of Labels in P2P Case

Major labels won a victory yesterday against file sharing networks and people who participate in them. A federal District Court in New York decided that by offering to distribute files on P2P networks by way of a shared folder, a person violates a copyright owner’s right to reproduce and distribute the work.

NIN Grosses $750,000 on New Release – Overnight

Okay, granted, this is an urban music blog site for the most part, and Nine Inch Nails has absolutely NOTHING to do with urban music, but since NIN now qualifies as an independent act, I still found this to be very noteworthy. Mostly because it bolsters my long-standing argument that major labels are becoming increasingly irrelevant, and that a lot of artists can do better off without them.