Per capita, there's been a decline in song sales. |
Practically speaking, ... I don't know that it makes any difference to the kid in the dorm room. That genie is already out of the bottle. |
The ability to spend a million dollars on a video, maybe a million on radio promotion-- that's all dependent on people buying a $17 expression of the product. If people spend 1/17 of that, then all of these shoulda-been multi-platinum records are underwater. And that's what's happening. |
The entertainment industry really needed this to be about the technology. What they didn't get was a decision that said 'tools that allow people to exchange files freely on the Internet, without permission, are illegal,' |
The Fab Four have always been among the very most popular bands online even though they're technically -- or legitimately -- unavailable online. My easy prediction is that the Beatles sell a lot of songs online, even though seemingly everybody who has access to them has their songs already. |
The open-source community will continue to build new, uncensored versions. |
There's always going to be a need for gatekeepers who perform the service that record labels do now. Otherwise, it's just noise, pure cacophony. Most people who are not A&R (Artist & Repertoire) executives don't want to sort through tens of thousands of contenders to find 50 things that sound great. |
There's no site to shut down. |
These Web sites and these businesses were shut down but it doesn't shut down the software, it doesn't shut down the (file-sharing) networks. The open-source community will continue to build new, uncensored versions. |
This isn't just for consumer-created content, |
Three to five years from now, we'll be looking at a system where you buy a digital file, and it plays on any digital device. |
Unlike downloading a Hollywood film, which I think everyone intuitively knows is a clear violation of the copyright, people do not have that sharp line, that distinction, in their minds when they download free TV. |
We have never seen a great migration from one [file-sharing] network to another based on features alone. |