Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.

I think in terms of the work were doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier.

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.

Napster works because people who love music share and participate.

I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.

There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.