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(8 votes)   I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier.

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(6 votes)   Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.

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(4 votes)   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.

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(2 votes)   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.

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(2 votes)   Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.

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(11 votes)   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?

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(10 votes)   If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

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(9 votes)   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.

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(8 votes)   I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly.

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(8 votes)   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.

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(7 votes)   Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us... They still believe in that vision.

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(7 votes)   I was at Northeastern University playing with the idea and getting feedback from my roommates, and then started drafting a really basic design idea.

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(6 votes)   He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.

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(6 votes)   I understood an idea like this could become popular, but at the same time I didn't think it was my implementation that would be so widely used.

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(6 votes)   I wasn't really sure that my implementation of it would be what really took off, but fortunately I was able to get a prototype done.

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