Just finished watching Artifact - instead of working. Excellent and I second Bob's recommendation.
 
Spoiler Alert: it has a happy ending.
 

Thanks, Bob. 
 
After watching it, as a mental exercise I tried to form a counter-argument on behalf of EMI. 
 
I drew a comparison with Microsoft. Like EMI, Microsoft is nothing without the content that its software designers and engineers create. Those guys and gals are the equivalent to a record company's talent pool. They, too, have "360" contracts insofar as Microsoft owns anything they create, even if they do it on their own time. They may also be contractually prohibited from going to work for a competitor. Like EMI, Microsoft pays them a very small percentage of the company's revenue.
 
But there are two big differences. Software engineers don't have to take out a loan before they can start working, and most of them are free to walk at any time. Anything else would be indentured servitude.
 
So in the end, I had to conclude that Terra Firma really is the villain of this story. Sadly, the scenario of an investment company wading in and destroying its acquisitions isn't limited to just the recording industry.

Woa! - How weird is that?
In that video "What's he building?"
The side shot of the house at 0:08 seconds in is the very image of a dream I had about 2 years ago.
It was an escape both to and from that house with a woman I was with.
 
Meanwhile a few others were surrounding 'our' house [if you will] trying to find us and we spotted them from a distance as we we're coming back home to it.
But it wasn't 'our' home - just a hide out.
 
Woa - How weird is that for me to stumble upon this thread and that very image a few years later.
 
I think I better get up and visit the fridge now...
 
...or something.
 
...didee deedoo - didee deedoo - didee deedoo - didee deedoo...
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y

jJimusic, doot, i seen you there.  That's why we came, see, my sister had made a pledge, what you did sullied our name.
 
Besides, you owed us rent and never mowed the grass.
 
I'm over it now though.  No need to fret brett.
 
jesse
 
out
 
 
 

Hi,
 
So, I'm cleaning out some more cassette tapes and making sure they are mp3'd before I chuck them and all that, and in the middle of it all ... I came across one of my dad doing a talk, or lecture ... seems like both ... at some big name university, and it is funny ... specially when he gets to use a 4 letter word ... one of his pet peeves about many of those university circles. Also found one from Roger Waters talking about Radio Kaos, which is very good ... and a couple of more fun things.

Moshkito
 
 Radio Kaos, which is very good

That album was rendered unlistenable (to me) by the production. Horrible sounding stuff.