[ Thanks to Paul
Eggert for this link. ]
“In the biggest cultural and economic battle the entertainment
industry has faced, record labels have managed to transform
themselves into a creaky, fuddy-duddy playground that young techies
view as the Lawrence Welk of today’s music employers. Unlike
the flood of industries from which work forces have fled to the
dot-com arena, the record labels have dug a deeper hole for
themselves by depicting the tech-savvy young people they now are
desperate to recruit as their enemies in lawsuits and anti-piracy
campaigns.”
“I can get the college kid who wants to break into marketing or
the young advertising guy with little experience. [But] there are
[technical] spots that I just can’t fill,” said a record company
executive who requested anonymity. “I can’t get people to call us
back.”
“Clarke seemed bemused by the suggestion that a major label
should have recruited him. “Like I’d take a job with them,” Clarke
later scoffed. “Like anyone with any sense would do that.”