“Five to 10 years from now, nearly every recorded song will be stored in digital form on servers, and delivered on demand via wired and wireless Internet to homes, offices, cars and portable devices.”
“I think that the most important effect of this legal setback for (MP3.com) is that they might have to capitulate and play ball in a way that they haven't been willing to in the past.”
“If the music industry is going to pull out of its nosedive and create a new model that makes sense, it's going to need some kind of ownership that has the capacity to take risks.”
“Gnutella is a decentralized system. There's no single server that tells you all the information of who's got what. So there's no single point in the continuum that you can force to shut down, ... If you take half of the computers that use Gnutella off the system, the other half will still work just fine.”
