It's not about piracy. It's about opportunity,

We remain confident that the (9th U.S. Circuit) Court will ultimately affirm once it has had an opportunity to review the facts and the law.

I don't have any illusions that what we are doing is sticking the the bottle. I don't think that's what we are doing. We are trying to make sure that the genie has friends, has food to eat, a way to grow.

For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.

There is no effective filtering out of copyrighted works operating now within Napster. We believe it is willful, ... Virtually all of the music that we noticed to Napster, that they claimed they have filtered out, is still available on their system.

It's an effort by over 120 technology and music companies to try to work together, to create the legitimate music marketplace for consumers,