i would not have built napster. owe a great debt to that small cabal of people who were essentially an underground community of cyber criminals. and at the same time, my parents -- it drove my parents crazy. emily: when you were 16, you met another hacker, sean fanning, online. you didn't go to college. you moved to silicon valley and you guys built napster together. sean: it was a great experience for us. we had nothing to lose. little did we know, there was criminal liability associated with enabling what they called contributory and vicarious copyright infringement on what was realistically an unprecedented scale. i blame myself that i was not a better negotiator. i could not help them save themselves. it is sad to watch the decline of this industry. it didn't necessarily need to happen that way. and that is a -- emily: why not? sean: consumers turn to piracy by and large when they can't get the product through legitimate channels. so there needed to be a legitimate market offering coming from the record labels,

. >>> the huge battle in the music industry these days against the internet site known as napster. >> sean parker and john fanning launched the music file sharing service napster in 1999. >> the goal was to make music available to everyone. >> the site blind-sides the record industry and permanently transforms the way music is distributed and sold. >> instead of trading cassettes which we had been doing, suddenly songs are flying around for free like crazy. >> at its peak, 70 million users are swapping songs on napster, costing the record industry hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue before the service is forced to shut down in 2001. >> we started a kind of cultural revolution but didn't succeed as a business. >> nearly two years after napster's demise, apple launches the itunes market store, an online marketplace that redefines the single. >> i can't remember the last time i bought an entire album. you know, it's an a la carte menu out there. >> today subscription-based streaming services are edging out digital downloads by selling access to massive music catalogs stored i

the band took napster to court. lars: and then it became a street fight.was literally like a back alley brawl. you have no idea how many people in phone calls and emails and, "we support you. what can we do to help you? right on, thanks for going out there on the frontlines." okay, and then, you know, it's like one of those, like, kind of go out there, and you're sort of looking over your shoulder, and like not a single one of those people were anywhere to be found in public, which was kind of bizarre. but we were in a street fight, so we just soldiered on. peter: the band was fighting a software program in the software capital of the world. and they won. the victory transformed the music industry. new companies were born, sites that offered fans millions of songs, and made sure the artists got paid. lars: a large group of our friends and fans love spotify, love, you know, apple music, love pandora and all the different, you know, elements. i have spotify on my phone, and i'm right there with pandora and all the rest of it. so, you sort of adapt as you go

nos, thanks in large part to more than $7 million in funding from venture capitalist sean parker of napsteracebook fame. and a few weeks ago in san francisco's financial district, there was an expo for so-called industry disrupters. >> this is the new face of cannabis right now. and this here today, this is the new face of the cannabis industry. >> reporter: up where most of the pot is actually grown, they are not thrilled with prop 64. >> i think there's going to be a period of time where the prices are going to go really low. and it's -- it is going to be about the ones that survive. >> reporter: hudson is helping brand the local product as true humbol humboldt, ask she plans to vote no. many growers fear outsiders will eventually come in and take over the industry. but some second generation farmers, like sunshine johnston and raoo anderson, want to come out from the shadows. >> we haven't had a future until now. and now we have a future. and in five years, we'll start to see what that future looks like. >> being from this community, the black market has taken away our right to speak out

. >> hear more from ulrich, including metallica's battle with napster and music streaming services today it's a really good program. we have the untold stories from also not just metallica, rapper too short, carlos santana, huey lewis all on our bay area revelations program this sunday after sunday night football around 9:00 p.m. >>> what do you do when you're stuck in traffic? we caught people doing interesting things, next. >>> tonight at 6:00, a shocking cold case solved in the east bay. four years after a grandmother was brutally killed on her morning walk, detectives announce an arrest. what the suspect did that led to a break in the case. that story and more tonight at 6:00. >>> finally at 5:00, an ugly day of traffic. it started in the morning, continued through the afternoon, but there is some reason to smile. our nbc chopper spotted this today. a connector to the san mateo bridge. the big rig caught fire, shut down several lanes, cars came to a stop. and some of the commuters, you know what they're doing down there? they're playing catch. >> how fun! >> making the best of it, ri

we will see changes from the north to south along that napster eventually it is supposed to improve the commute by 52%. live in san francisco kpix5. >>> 6:57 am let's take a look at your roads, west bend 80 before powell street a two-car crash off to the shoulder, actually it is blocking the left lane. causing some backups all the way into crockett. a small commute -- slow commute a 30 minute commute into downtown semper cisco from the maze and a traffic is backed up through the maze at the moment. high wind advisory as well and a high wind advisory in san mateo. northbound 880, a big rig versus a car causing delays at headed into downtown oakland but a look at the san mateo bridge 880 211 will take you 27 minutes. very heavy conditions. >>> such a beautiful sunset last night and this morning some clouds and no rain as of yet according to the life radar the bulk of your date will be dry with rate moving into the north bay and far reaches by lunch. and gradually all of that to the south and then falls apart. the northwestern quadrant of the california impacted by the heavy rain. that is

napster was neither the killer nor creator of employment its enthusiasts and detractors say.winkler is with us now. specifica look at companies. -- tell us about the story in mexico. cementt's the largest maker in the americas. it's business is coming. the biggest single market is the united states. construction in the u.s. is also blooming. otherwise, they would not be booming. the u.s. is doing very well and set max is doing really well. it's coming for commercial real estate development. this came from your piece. explain exactly how it is helping them do so well. you said production is up. there is the bart chart there. matt: what is going on right now is there is a lot of commercial development in the u.s. that uses cement. another way to look at things is there is a wonderful company called kansas city freight based in missouri. it has also been booming. because it transports stuff from mexico to the united states. sinceb roles are up 9% the recession ended. it's doing very well. jobs are up because of nafta in this case. so his business booming because of nafta. nafta

napster was an increase of 25% from the double benchmark plans for the department of health and humanervices. the announcement days after zeke emmanuel on this program a few days ago, one of the architects of obama cared insisted it was huge improvement. watch. >> every economic analysis shows you the one they had caused by inc. said monday it is not health care because health care costs have come way down compared to george bush. that is just a. maria: sounds like rainbows and puppy dogs for the affordable care act. >> the affordable carrot has been a big improvement. that doesn't mean it hasn't been a big improvement. maria: steve forbes, this is an increase in premiums of 25% to hurt american families. no doubt about it. i don't think there's any doubt the affordable carrot has been a huge disappointment to individuals and businesses. >> there has been a disaster. there's no way the exchanges will work. the young people will stay away and have stayed away. don't buy the expensive insurance until you get sick. the private companies take the hit for it. the bronze plans. we have more