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.
After you cross that 99-cent psychological line with consumers, you're going to hurt sales.
We are looking at a number of acquisitions, ... but they have to make sense.
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.
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.
We have a system where rights holders can lay claim to their content. Nobody else has anything like that.
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.
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.
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