“Our whole direction as a company was not to merely provide file sharing services; we wanted to have a community of music afficianados actively seeking out new music. As I mentioned above, I bought a TON of CDs while I worked at AG, and virtually all of them were from music I found out about and previewed as an mp3. It was amazing to be talking to someone about their favorite band that you saw listed on their profile page, queue it to your satellite, and by the end of the conversation already be listening to that music. For several bands that are now some of my favorites, I went from never having heard of them to loving them in literally 5 minutes. From discussions I’ve had with many of my friends, they had similar experiences. The whole system made it easy to find new music; that was what it was designed to do, and at its height it did it brilliantly.”
“Den Schluss, dass ungeschriebene Gesetze wie jenes, dass die stärkste Partei den Nationalratspräsidenten stellt, nur für die FPÖ gelten, könnte man aus Westenthalers Antwort auf die Frage ziehen, ob die Regel nach der nächsten Wahl auch noch gelten solle oder die FPÖ diese Funktion haben wolle. Ungeschriebene Gesetze seien änderbar, “für mich gelten nur geschriebene Gesetze”. Aber die Frage sei noch nicht aktuell, man werde sehen, wie die nächste Wahl ausgehe. Vielleicht werde die FPÖ ja stärkste Partei, “dann ist es ja ohnedies klar”, dass sie den Präsidenten stellen werde – außer es werde anderes ausverhandelt, schob Westenthaler nach.”