Thomas Hesse Quotations

We're excited to have two more SONY BMG artists achieve Platinum and Gold milestones on Sprint, ... The success we've seen with Music Tones on Sprint is a great indication that the market for mobile music is continuing to gain momentum.

It's a security vulnerability and therefore needs to be dealt with.

The market is starting to move towards greater differentiation. Why should everything be the same price? No other market in the world works like that.

We are painfully aware that we are cannibalizing our core business. It's something we need to do, but it's not clear to us when our industry will return to revenue growth.

We encourage anyone who has any security issues to bring them to our attention. Following the good protocol in vulnerability management, we will fix it. Security is an ongoing issue that we will always monitor relentlessly and carefully.

You can do with the CD you bought what you do with it if you're within the realm of personal use,

In a not particularly exuberant environment, this is one area of growth we're capitalizing on.

When people have downtime they love playing with their mobile phones. So instead of playing a game of Tetris or buying their next ring tone, browsing for music and downloading a full track -- it's a natural and good thing.

Everything priced the same was a great thing to do in the beginning of the market. Now it's a good time to move into a tiered market. This whole landscape is evolving. We will be more seeing more of a price differentiation between more desirable stuff and less desirable stuff.

If you attempt to burn 20 copies and distribute them to the kids who come to your son's birthday party, that's not possible.