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"There is no sense in owning the copyright unless you are going to use it. I don't think anyone wants to hold all of this stuff in a vault and not let anybody have it. It's only worth something once it's popular."
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"Unfortunately, humans have a long history of trying to fix their engineering mistakes with more engineering mistakes!"
"Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood."
"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."
"One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word."
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"The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal."
"For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song."
"A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people."
"When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted."
"This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years."
"I don't have any illusions that what we are doing is sticking the the bottle. I don't think that's what we are doing. We are trying to make sure that the genie has friends, has food to eat, a way to grow."
"Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community."
"Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience."
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