Eric Garland
Eric Garland
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People are getting more free music on mp3s than they're getting on CDs. And nearly all those mp3s are illegally downloaded.
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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,'
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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.
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People are getting more free music on mp3s than they're getting on CDs, ... And nearly all those mp3s are illegally downloaded.
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I think this just opens more doors and asks more questions than it answers, ... We're going to see a whole of litigation because there's still no clear standard.
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I think that television and Hollywood film will have a much easier time of working with this phenomenon as opposed to battling it.
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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.
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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.
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The open-source community will continue to build new, uncensored versions.
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Per capita, there's been a decline in song sales.
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Most people, most of the time, get their music free. And that's not a marketplace. In fact, it directly threatens the concept of the music marketplace.
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None of these companies are essential in the mix. They're afterthoughts.
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My easy prediction is that The Beatles will sell a lot of songs online, even though seemingly everybody who has access to them has their songs already.
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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.