Eric Garland Quotes (16 Quotes)

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.

The open-source community will continue to build new, uncensored versions.

And 10 billion songs per year is a very conservative estimate.

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.

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.

I think that television and Hollywood film will have a much easier time of working with this phenomenon as opposed to battling it.

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.

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,'

It's just like if Sony went out of business. Your Sony television would still function.

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.

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.

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 AR (Artist Repertoire) executives don't want to sort through tens of thousands of contenders to find 50 things that sound great.

If consumers feel it meets the standard of P2P, they'll be willing to try it, ... Otherwise, they won't care.

People are getting more free music on mp3s than they're getting on CDs, ... And nearly all those mp3s are illegally downloaded.

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 117 of that, then all of these shoulda-been multi-platinum records are underwater. And that's what's happening.

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.