During more than
5 years, I worked for EMI-ODEON S.A (part of EMI Iberica, which included operations for
Portugal and
Spain). At that time, EMI was a very
conservative record company, and at EMI Spain, I've met some of the worst management that I can recall. Back in
1995, I asked for a computer (yes, I was working without
computer at work when I had two in
home) and an
Internet connection, in order to streamline the process of sending artist's bios and pictures, with a dedicated
FTP server the journalist could use to
download stuff, and a
distribution list to inform the press of news about our artist. The response was
NO.
I always get that damn feeling that nobody takes you seriously, and look now, everybody is going nuts trying to make some money of Internet... (see AOL-TimeWarner-EMI)