“Regardless of this decision, we will continue to defend our rights online on behalf of artists, songwriters and countless others involved in bringing music to the public.”
RIAA president Cary Sherman, on a court ruling that gutted the music industry’s ability to sue file-sharers, MTV.com, 19 December 2003
“I gather that such a podule can contain as many as 10,000 ‘songs.’ Are there 10,000 songs? Why would one want to carry so many?”
Musical neo-Luddite Gideon Garter, who’s clearly better at entertaining himself than others, The Guardian, 17 December 2003
“The important thing here is that we’ve got to get ‘Motorola’ to mean something.”
New Motorola CEO Ed Zander, scare-quoting his new employer, News.com, 17 December 2003
“Unlike the French Revolution, the Internet revolution has lots of liberty, some fraternity and no equality.”
United Nations undersecretary-general Shashi Tharoor, on how the digital divide can be bridged with just a wee bit more brotherhood, The New York Times, 15 December 2003
“Over the last four years, we increased our business focus in the platforms group…. For quite some time, Brian Valentine and I have been discussing how to achieve more engineering focus in the organization.”
Microsoft executive Jim Allchin, on putting a coder back in charge of Windows, Computer Reseller News, 15 December 2003
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