Eric Scheirer Quotes

When the record industry is identifying particular pieces of music on Napster, they're pointing to specific files and where they see a file name. But clever users of Napster are doing things like writing the name backwards or putting it in code. - Eric Scheirer

What we'll find is that next week some of the music is gone. The week after that, even more is gone. And over the coming weeks and months, the music is gradually less and less appealing to music lovers. - Eric Scheirer

This kind of technology is such a fundamental part of the Internet that to try to have a blanket ban against all technology like this is essentially saying people on the Internet can't exchange files with each other. You just can't do that. - Eric Scheirer

They're already third-party Napster servers, that I can just point my Napster client (software) to some other server and I don't have to use a server that's run by Napster. You just download a different (small software program) and go to a different site an you can essentially use the same Napster service you were using before. - Eric Scheirer

No, not right now. The service consumers want is not what the record labels are currently able to provide. Anybody who is satisfying consumer demand will have to be doing it outside of the sphere of the record labels. - Eric Scheirer

Neither digital security nor lawsuits will stop Internet theft of content. - Eric Scheirer

Napster has always been a questionable business. They've never been a business making money. So what this really puts doubt on is whether they're ever going to be a service that makes any money or at some point they're just going to quietly fade away into Internet oblivion. - Eric Scheirer

Consumers will use sites like Napster to get content for free. - Eric Scheirer

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