These are the assholes who rule the world now: the guys who won the lottery. Napster? An interesting idea, horribly executed, gone almost before it started, but with a huge payday for the guy who started it. Since then he's been sitting on his ass watching his Facebook investment pile up cash for him. He's never done a lick of real work in his life, but he's obscenely rich by accident, and as a result he knows what's wrong with the rest of us.

He'd get along with the MicroZons we have running around here in Seattle. Full of their own egos, thinking they have the solutions for everything all the while not having a clue about the real world and trying to make a buck.

@Fnarf: Napster during its hey day was fucking awesome. It had totally obscure songs I still can't find online today.

It is like Change.org. A for profit data collection enterprise. You'd be best to just get involved in the process.

Napster prompted broadband demand, which made possible the contemporary internet. I don't know or care about Sean Parker, but Napster - and especially its successor, Kazaa - invented the internet

donating money to fix corporate control of politics would b dumb bcuz that cause won't win. the best donor targets seem to b Oxfam and the like, which r saving lives for a few hundo a pop, nowadays. gettin good at it