Peter Kafka

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Is Warner Music a Buyer or a Seller? Goldman Sachs Says "Yes!"

Warner Music Group has hired Goldman Sachs to find a buyer for all or a portion of the music company, reports the New York Times. Warner Music Group has also hired Goldman Sachs to help it buy all or a portion of longtime rival EMI Music Group, the Times reports. The Times politely calls this an “unusual two-track process,” but it makes perfect sense for Goldman, which gets paid no matter what.


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I probably shouldn’t be saying this, but it is a compliment of sorts … [Piracy is] something that comes along with having a wildly successful show on a subscription network.

— HBO programming president Michael Lombardo, talking to Entertainment Weekly about the “rampant” piracy of HBO’s “Game of Thrones”