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May
Ted Cohen, one of the first music industry executives to embrace digital distribution, is leaving EMI Group today to start a consulting practice — as what was once a geeky niche has matured into a flourishing online business for record labels.
Cohen, 56, is credited with recognizing in 1999 that the renegade Napster file-sharing service didn’t represent the death of the business but a new way to sell music. As EMI’s senior vice president of digital development, Cohen pushed the company to the vanguard of new technology.
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