Eric Garland Quotations

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.

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.

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

None of these companies are essential in the mix. They're afterthoughts.

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

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

The Fab Four have always been among the very most popular bands online even though they're technically -- or legitimately -- unavailable online. My easy prediction is that the Beatles sell a lot of songs online, even though seemingly everybody who has access to them has their songs already.

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.

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.

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.