Richard Menta

Richard Menta , Columnist. Author of the MentaNet News

Quotes from the MentaNet News

• Viagra is the Armani suit of the new millennium. A symbol of success, virility and power packaged into a little pill.
  • Source The Viagra Bulge, Wall Street Rises on New Status Symbol

Quotes from the MP3 Newswire

• When the motto for the year 2001 is "Innovation Followed by Litigation" you know who the biggest winners are - the lawyers.
  • Source MP3 2001 in Review: The Winners - 12/31/2001
• When someone asks me where MP3 Newswire stands with regards to file trading (or piracy as some try to call it) I tell them that we support the growth of this notion of an online music industry. One that uses technology to bring us more music, broadening our pallettes while leveraging the Net to reduce distribution costs. The music can be paid for like CDs and tape or it can be free to its audience and supported by advertising like radio and MTV are. Whatever the model, the point is online music easily can and does supplement what we already purchase in the stores.
  • Source Three Lawsuits and a Funeral - 11/30/2001
• The flaw of target marketing is that it assumes people are indifferent to variety. Suburban white boys won't listen to Rap because supposedly they can't relate to urban black youths hopping around to all beat and no melody. What we get is music segregation on the airwaves and the record racks
  • Source Three Lawsuits and a Funeral - 11/30/2001