These pleasing results, achieved in the context of a weak worldwide music market and in spite of the potential distraction of our merger discussions, demonstrate the fundamental strength and quality of EMI's businesses. |
This is not about raising prices. It's about getting the most effective charging structure. |
Today's results show that EMI Group had a successful first half, delivering significant growth in both revenues and profits, and that both our recorded music and music publishing divisions made good progress during the period, |
We are seeing progress and we are at least containing piracy. |
We live in an age where virtually every sector in every country on the planet is contaminated by piracy and counterfeiting and this is having devastating effects on our businesses, the economy and wider society. |
We remain confident that digital music will return the industry to growth in due course. |
We're at year zero -- if that -- with mobile. |
We're finally seeing a raft of new initiatives from really big players. This stuff is happening all day, every day now. |
We've moved on from the days when the main impact of digital technology was to harm our industry by facilitating rampant online and physical theft. The day is surely within our sights when digital growth outstrips physical decline and we can all compete for share of a growing pie. |