U-Wire Today: Sony exec: We will beat Napster Aug 23, 2000, 23 :05 UTC (39 Talkback[s]) (7280 reads) (Other stories by M.A. Anastasi)
"Napster will lose. Guaranteed."
"Or so says Steve Heckler, senior
vice president of Sony Pictures
Entertainment Inc., who spoke to
more than 1,200 educators,
researchers and other computing
experts at a conference hosted
by Cal State Long Beach this
past weekend...."
"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."
