That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.

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

Napster works because people who love music share and participate.

Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one.

But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.

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