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Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't know if it's the same in the US, but in the UK, the directors of a company have a legal duty to maximise the return for their shareholders. If they fail to do so, they can be taken to court.
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I've always seen that particular kind of law and thinking as causing a lot of rather nasty short term decisions for immediate financial gain with no thought to the long term repercussions. Like thumbing your nose at a group of customers and saying "No. You get to wait 6 months" and even worse telling your content creators that you're reinterpreting their contracts to essentially steal the rights to older work.
In an industry suffering from less good times it's probably not the sanest type of thinking to be honest. You'd think the publishers would have paid attention to what worked and what didn't for the music industry.