Wayne Rosso Quotations

We were always in the background trying to get licenses and in those days we would get one of two responses -- either, 'We're not going to reward pirates,' or 'Shut down and we'll talk about it.

Steve Jobs and Apple are going to be toast. There's going to be a completely different landscape.

I thought Joe McCarthy and Joe Stalin were dead, but obviously they're alive and well, and running the Record Industry Association of America.

We have a system where rights holders can lay claim to their content. Nobody else has anything like that.

We are looking at a number of acquisitions, ... but they have to make sense.

After you cross that 99-cent psychological line with consumers, you're going to hurt sales.

The music industry has won not only the online music battle, it's won the war.

I told him, 'I shoot my mouth off in the press, but it's all marketing.' He did the same thing, taking a certain stance in public,

It's pretty clear who won. We always knew that this free trading of all this copyright material couldn't go on. It just wouldn't work.

If Hollywood doesn't act now, a year from now this decision won't matter, ... Right under everybody's noses, ultra-fast networks are getting rolled out. Suddenly, a DVD will be downloaded in a matter of seconds.

I don't see him as a victim; I think he's going to be happier not having to baby-sit a lot of egos. The music industry is firmly entrenched in its habits, and it's a very parochial, self- preserving industry.