Download Quotes

"It`s amazing with the album going Gold and all the i-Tunes downloads and everything. It`s insane. We don`t have a Grease or Footloose or Flashdance in this generation. And it`s great that they have something that`s readily available tp all these kids so they can download the music and listen to the songs. Now they can learn the dances and watch it at home, and soon they`ll be able to buy it on DVD, and then they`ll have some part of the music, because the music is so important, especially to a child`s life."

I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you`ll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it.

Let`s say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I`m saying?

But since I am in the music industry, I don`t want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.

We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.

I don`t believe every download is a lost sale.

A businessman driving in a car can download data by using a cell phone as a modem. It`s the same thing here, but over a satellite network. You`re not limited by line of sight communications,

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist`s work and download it free is stealing. It`s hard work writing and recording music, and it`s morally wrong to steal it.

And really, it hasn`t hurt our CD sales. People out there look at the price of a download in a different way. This is disposable music. It`s a way for them to sample something without making a large investment. They`ll pay the 99 cents for one cut and either decide to try the whole album or not. If they like it, they`ll maybe go out and purchase the CD.

My Generation is, without doubt, and all-time classic... I can`t think of a better iconic anthem for HMV`s new download service as it reaches out to existing fans and a new generation of music buyers alike.

This is an important milestone both for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the American orchestra industry. For the first time, an American orchestra is making available its archives on iTunes and other commercial download sites, finally realizing the promise of the groundbreaking AF of M (American Federation of Musicians) Internet Agreement of 2000.

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that`s when I realized that this had a huge market.

(He adds that chaos communications could do wonders for bandwidth on the Internet. ) It would eliminate any scarcity in the ability to transmit information, ... You would never have to wait for anything to download and you could use capacity on demand.

It`s gotten to the point now where I surf the fan sites everyday and download cool things the fans have created, which is really ironic in a way!

I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you`ll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it.

Incredibly, Apple has persuaded Disney, which owns ABC, to make available all episodes of five TV series, including `Lost,` `Desperate Housewives` and `That's So Raven.` Each show costs $1.99 '” an easy impulse buy if you missed an episode. They play back beautifully, with no network logo in the corner, no yearlong wait for the DVD, and no commercials. (One 43-minute `hour` of TV takes 12 minutes to download with my cable modem, and about two minutes to transfer to the iPod over its U.S.B. 2.0 cable.) ...That Mr. Jobs persuaded Disney to dip its pinky toe into these waters is an impressive development '” and a very promising sign.

The most exciting thing about the mobile download market is that it is new and fresh. It`s like the internet was a few years ago - people are just beginning to realise its potential.

We don`t know how big a market this is going to be in the US, Amazon is a big existing customer, and it would be natural for them to evolve into a download model.