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# Another Manager Speaks Out On The Death Of Major Labels & The DRM Devil
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/another_major_m/
- Published: 2006-11-06T08:13:04.000Z
- Updated: 2006-11-06T08:13:04.000Z
- Description: Nettwerk Management’s Terry McBride is no longer a lone wolf howling against what he sees as the uselessness of major labels and the devil called DRM. The UK’s Peter Jenner. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2006/11/another_major_m.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Major Labels, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:10

[![Uk_flag_3](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/uk_flag_3.jpg "Uk_flag_3")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/uk%5Fflag%5F3.jpg?ref=hypebot.com)Nettwerk Management’s [Terry McBride](http://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/2006/08/nettwerks%5Fmcbri.html?ref=hypebot.com) is no longer a lone wolf howling against what he sees as the uselessness of major labels and the devil called DRM. The **UK’s** [**Peter Jenner**](http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-33,GGLJ:en&q=Peter+Jenner&ref=hypebot.com) (former manager of The Clash and Pink Floyd) has joined the chorus from across the pond:

**On the death of Digital Right Management:**

[![Sonybmg_42](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/sonybmg_42.jpg "Sonybmg_42")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/sonybmg%5F42.jpg?ref=hypebot.com)

"…that was done by Sony BMG – what the fuck was that \[rootkit DRM\] about? The other was iTunes – and they’ve seen how kids don’t like it. **The unitary payment…doesn’t suit how they’re actually using downloads – which is to explore and move around…"**

**On the major labels:**

![Universal_3](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/universal_3.jpg "Universal_3")

****"No one’s got any sympathy or love for them, because they’ve systematically been shoring up their figures in the short run – squeezing money into Universal to make**

[![Emi_44](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/emi_44.jpg "Emi_44")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/emi%5F44.jpg?ref=hypebot.com)

up for their catastrophies; Warner Brothers have been coping with huge debt; EMI have been desperately trying to hold their stock price up so somebody would buy them; BMG has been wondering how the fuck they’re going to pay somebody back money for whatever it was, so they don’t go public – and Sony are in a terminal mess."*(more @* [*Register UK*](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/03/peter%5Fjenner/page2.html?ref=hypebot.com)*)*

I had the pleasure of having dinner with Jenner a couple of years ago and beneath the colorful language found a thoughtful manager with a world of experience to share. **His solution** for this mess? **Blanket licensing**: if you listen to music you pay a few bucks a month to download whatever you want. It’s modeled somewhat after today’s performance royalty scheme where radio pays a flat fee and the money is divided up based on song plays. Music commentator Bob Lefsetz has been banging this drum in the US for months. 

**It’s so revolutionary that it could work.** **We’re living the alternative.**