Because of copyright laws, are the record companies reluctant to work with online music companies?
I was at EMI for 8 years and involved in new media and I know all the people at the record labels. That has helped our conversations. Now what we’re doing is developing licensing deals and the most important thing is to keep it simple. The problem is not that record companies have gotten stricter with their copyrights – they have always been stringent – but I think they now realize you can’t create a system that has 100 percent security. It has to be based on trust. In a few years time we are going to see an environment where major players become even more powerful and they are going to create another tier to create more interesting models. There will be major players and we’ll be right there with the play list in the foreground.
