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

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

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

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.

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.

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.