"Independent labels are understandably up in arms over the Universal/Sony takeover of EMI, with their international organisation Impala registering a formal complaint with the European Commission and pledging to fight the merger to the bitter end. After all, the purchase would hand Universal more than 40% of the market and with it the power to dictate the terms of any deal with a new digital music platform. Personally, I would have preferred Warner to buy EMI, as that would reduce the major labels to three, and those three would have a similar share of the recorded music market. (Ironically, Impala successfully fought a Warner/EMI merger years ago.)" - M F

:( - Son of Groucho

There seems to be a lot of :( these days or is it me? - M F