To summarize, Norman Lebrecht predicts that DG will essentially fold because of poor internal decisions, and then other major record companies will follow suit. First, I wasn't aware that Lebrecht was an economics expert as well as a musical one. Second, his premise is essentially the same as the political "Domino Theory", that if you let one country go communist, the others will follow. That theory was nonsense. Third, Lebrecht's premise does not make economic sense. I often find that when an expert in one field starts behaving like an expert in another field, I am really looking at a person who is expert in neither. Don Satz [log in to unmask]