Michael Robertson Quotes (26 Quotes)

This is an industry in its infancy. This is still primarily a technology pursuit and not about building a brand.

VOIP has been all about free PC-to-PC calls. Area775 is the first service that links VOIP to the traditional phone world and gives users unprecedented power to manage their voice communications by screening and answering calls on any SIP device, computer or regular phone, as well as transferring calls between their devices.

If artificial barriers are necessary to keep employees dedicated to company goals, then that's an indicator of weak management.

He was familiar with my companies and writings and thought we shared a similar ideology.

The exciting thing here is that we have been working the technology to deliver music digitally for three years, and with today's announcement the largest music companies in the world will provide their catalogs to allow us to do that, ... Everyone in the business is excited about moving from a world of trucks and plastic CDs to a world where the music is zapped, instantly and digitally.

What they're really doing is trying to use the internet as a radio, in effect, a hundred-million-person radio as a way for them to broadcast their music and alert new fans to their music.

I want a world where you can play your music on products from any vendor and even across vendors.

Remember, no Internet company ever went out of business because they had too many users and too much content.

We believe that everyone should have the right to listen to the music they purchase, even if it's on the Internet, ... While we respect the court, we disagree with the court's decision and we look forward to taking our case to the court of appeals.

Legal or illegal, Napster doesn't feel right, ... It doesn't give the copyright holders their share.

Maybe the artists should keep those master recordings and just use a service, like MP3.COM, to sell their music. And in fact, when they use us, let's give them a flat fee ... let's just give them 50 percent of the sale price right off the top.

To me, roaming along the shelves of a used book store is like searching for seashells along the beach, ... Sometimes I leave the store with a full pail, other times I do not.

By applying financial discipline, our second quarter financial results demonstrate our ability to maintain the balance between containing expenses and developing innovative revenue streams.

Both Chase and Taylor have great control. We need them to take their game to a higher level this year. I anticipate them pitching backwards, meaning when they get behind by counts of 2-0 or 3-1, you won't see them try to catch up by throwing just fast balls. I want to see more off-speed pitches. Outside of that, their main goal is to stay healthy and get stronger as the season progresses.

Microsoft has conceded that the server will have some Linux competition, but they've drawn a line in the sand at the desktop.

We had some problems with folks not being in the computer yet. Once we got those sorted out, we seemed to go OK.

There's going to be a fundamental shift in the way people listen to music and buy music,

I saw the hole and it was open, I had to take advantage of it. It was time for us to turn things around, and we took matters into our own hands.

I have always admired (Johansen's) work and his strength to stand up for what he believes is right, ... He doesn't advocate piracy but does advocate consumers' rights to manage their own purchased content.

We have been e-mail acquaintances for a while. I hired him because we happen to have a major project underway at MP3tunes.com where I thought his skill set would fit perfectly.

Our argument is that when you buy a CD, you buy a license to listen to the music, not a piece of plastic, ... The music industry argues that consumers don't have a right to copy that piece of plastic.

However, as a team I think we should be a lot more fundamental than we were last year. I was not pleased with our defense due to the amount of errors, so we're focusing more on defense in practice now. I don't anticipate a repeat of what we saw last season.

We're going to turn our technology, My.MP3.com, on hopefully in November with all of the record labels content,

A business model where artists, copyright holders and record companies can potentially monetize their music digitally and in an accretive manner is finally emerging.

Will licensing bodies work in a free market environment to license responsible technologies ... Or will they use this opportunity to squeeze competitors and consumers

Their content has gone back and forth, gone up and come down.