putting music

Remember when a private equity firm took over the major record label EMI, and insisted that things would be different, and it wouldn't keep filing ridiculous lawsuits and pissing off fans.

That's not exactly what happened. EMI not only sued the service MP3Tunes but it personally sued Michael Robertson, the company's founder as well, in an attempt to bankrupt him personally.

This is hardly a new phenomenon, but the Wall Street Journal is noting that some bands and some record labels are avoiding putting music on iTunes (or in some cases, pulling music off iTunes) in an effort to force people to buy the full album, rather than just a few tracks.

There are plenty of reasons to dislike iTunes, but it seems hard to believe that this does anything positive for the bands in question.