“We clearly have a database of pre-ripped CDs, but there is no license required — it’s for personal use.”
MP3.com CEO Michael Robertson, whose push to make his customers’ private CD libraries his business may lead the recording industry to pre-rip him a new orifice, News.com, 28 January 2000
“We certainly believe there will be room in the marketplace for a number of large portals … Looking at our strengths, we can win in the area of recreation, leisure, and entertainment.”
Go.com president Steve Wadsworth, on the Disney-backed Website’s retreat from ambitions of competing with Yahoo, CBS MarketWatch, 27 January 2000
“The investment-banking industry is feeling the effects of the Internet, and I think E*Offering is the best positioned to take advantage of that opportunity.”
Deutsche Banc analyst Andrea Williams, damning her former employer with effusive praise that doesn’t quite explain why she left, The Wall Street Journal, 26 January 2000 (paid subscription required)
“Accumulation of wealth has no purpose.”
Former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale, philosophizing on his former company’s legacy, The Washington Post, 25 January 2000
“It’s not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser.”
New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer, on the doubleplus ungood implications of online data mining, New York Law Journal, 24 January 2000
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