Eric Garland
Eric Garland
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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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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.
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It's an existential question. To answer it, you'd have to get between the ears of everyone who downloads for free, every time they download something.
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The open-source community will continue to build new, uncensored versions.
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Even bands with deep catalogs have hits, and then they have superstar hits. There may be 20 songs from Queen that people know, but really we're talking about two or three that are more popular by orders of magnitude. They're cultural staples. If I had the option to buy 9 songs instead of 12 songs on 'Meet the Beatles,' I might have done that.
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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.
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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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Per capita, there's been a decline in song sales.
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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.
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It's just like if Sony went out of business. Your Sony television would still function.
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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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But in the cases where people were downloading four or five or six songs from one work, 10 times out of 10 that album became a big seller at traditional retail. People still sometimes see the CD as a good investment.
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File sharing has never been more popular than it is now, ... People have heard all the legal threats and admonitions, but that's not enough. They don't believe it.