24 Quotes by Eric Garland

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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,'