According to Fanning, Napster was built to mimic the file sharing of news. And news sharing of commercial music was by and large illegal. Napster was all about pirated music. That was the only reason anyone I knew used it.

The fact that artists are getting screwed doesn't mean that there's only one person screwing them.

Slimy enemies does not make one automatically sanctimonious.

As for dropping out, a lot of these folks developed their businesses during college. It's not like they dropped out, spent four months working at Burger King and then came up with a killer idea. My point is not that dropping out or staying in is a good idea, but rather that following a good idea is in itself a good idea.