After you cross that 99-cent psychological line with consumers, you're going to hurt sales. |
I don't see him as a victim; I think he's going to be happier not having to baby-sit a lot of egos. The music industry is firmly entrenched in its habits, and it's a very parochial, self- preserving industry. |
I thought Joe McCarthy and Joe Stalin were dead, but obviously they're alive and well, and running the Record Industry Association of America. |
I told him, 'I shoot my mouth off in the press, but it's all marketing.' He did the same thing, taking a certain stance in public, |
If Hollywood doesn't act now, a year from now this decision won't matter, ... Right under everybody's noses, ultra-fast networks are getting rolled out. Suddenly, a DVD will be downloaded in a matter of seconds. |
It's pretty clear who won. We always knew that this free trading of all this copyright material couldn't go on. It just wouldn't work. |
Steve Jobs and Apple are going to be toast. There's going to be a completely different landscape. |
The music industry has won not only the online music battle, it's won the war. |
We are looking at a number of acquisitions, ... but they have to make sense. |
We have a system where rights holders can lay claim to their content. Nobody else has anything like that. |
We were always in the background trying to get licenses and in those days we would get one of two responses -- either, 'We're not going to reward pirates,' or 'Shut down and we'll talk about it. |