[FYI] Sony VP: We will beat Napster

[Martin Uecker <muecker@gmx.de>]

http://www.uwiretoday.com/computing081700001.html

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              Sony exec: We will beat Napster

              By M.A. Anastasi
              Daily Forty-Niner (California State U.,
              Long Beach)
              08/17/2000
              Respond to this article. 

              (U-WIRE) LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Napster
              will lose. Guaranteed. 

              Or so says Steve Heckler,
              senior vice president of Sony
              Pictures Entertainment Inc.,

              [...]
		
              "The [music] industry,"
              Heckler said, "will take
              whatever steps it needs to
              protect itself and protect
              its revenue streams. It will
              not lose that revenue stream,
              no matter what." 

              [...]

              "Sony is going to take
              aggressive steps to stop
              this," Heckler told the
              Summer Forty-Niner. "We will
              develop technology that
              transcends the individual
              user. We will firewall
              Napster at source -- we will
              block it at your cable
              company, we will block it at
              your phone company, we will
              block it at your
              [Internet-service provider].
              We will firewall it at your
              PC. 

              [...]

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