Google VP of Engineering joins EMI as President of digital

I dismissed yesterday's "big news" that a CIO at Google had been hired as a president at (my former employer) EMI as about as likely to be true as Techcrunch suing Facebook and Gmail warping the space-time continuum -- but apparently, both the LA Times and a press release from EMI confirm that it's true. It's definitely a gutsy move, and a big symbolic step in the right direction for a company that recently fired half its staff worldwide due to, well, more or less, the implications of the internet, but how much change can one high-ranking guy actually enact? What? Marrying music and technology? Getting people who understand technology and the internet to work in music? It's a great idea, EMI -- only thing is, you're about a decade too late.