In “mo better label“, Lucas has a very nice conversation going (I’ll be using that as a spring board for other posts in a bit) but he goes off the rails suggesting that EMI grabs ccMixter. ;)

Actually that would be a brilliant move for EMI, pretty terrible for ccMixter and inconceivable for me to trust an organization like that to be my employer or guardian of the site. That suggestion reminds me of calls for Microsoft to fully embrace the open/free source world. As far as I know they still don’t believe in the Internet over there. They sure didn’t when I left seven years ago and several key executives expressed hopes that it literally go away, like floppy drives or dialup modems. I suspect, like many major media companies, they are basically hanging out waiting for next best thing — the end of net neutrality. At that point they can choke down the pipeline and use http for what God intended: paid everything. And by “hanging out” I mean buying politicians, spreading cash around to mega-sites and other lower hanging fruit.