>> napster is stealing from us. straight up. and i'm going to fight them to the death. >> ladies and gentlemen, the strokes! >> wishing the president of the united states -- >> the dixie chicks, they can say what they want to say. >> billboard's top ten all by black artists. >> rappers are the new rock stars. >> i don't please anybody with who i am as a person. >> i love beyonce. >> that's not a working telephone, is it? >> empty shelves are all you'll find here at tower records. it's now out of business. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> three, two, one! >> this is a very special moment. the first performance at the mtv studios in the new millennium. please welcome no doubt! ♪ that's great it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes and aeroplanes ♪ ♪ lenny bruce is not afraid >> i'll always remember new year's eve 1999 going into y2k seeing no doubt on mtv playing "it's the end of the world as we know it" by r.e.m. ♪ it's the end of the world as we know it ♪ ♪ it's the end of the world as we know it ♪ ♪ i feel fine it was a very appr

i had a platform for sharing my music, to the frustration of a label i was on. >> napster has builtdollar business based on people copying files to millions and millions of people they don't know. >> there's a way the technology can be adapted to the benefit of all of the parties involved, the artists, the industry, and the users. >> napster should have been an early version of itunes. it's kind of a tragedy it didn't happen back then. >> today the u.s. court of appeals ruled napster is infringing on copyrighted music, in essence letting its users steal songs. >> the music label executives absolutely didn't want any kind of itunes-style distribution infrastructure that would fit with the internet because they were terrified of unbundling the single from the album. so for a long time they've been able to take one hit song like "complicated." ♪ tell me why did you have to go and make things so complicated ♪ >> if that song comes out in the late '90s it's going to move 20 million albums at $10 each. five or six years later it's no longer going to move 20 million albums. it's going to m

a one of them is a prototype version of like napster and he got sued for record of a billion dollars or something and that didn't end well and then he did another company but he only made like a million dollars on that which made him like middle-class in silicon valley i guess. so by the time he got to uber, hshe had a little bit of a chip on his shoulder. he'd been betrayed by some of his investors at earlier startups but still wanted to prove that he could build the next great thing. also post financial crisis right around that time so interest rates were dropping, capital was flowing into the money a lot more and archives were becoming somewhat more easy to build itself a lot of things have to happen at once to make uber have been limited. the access to the web services that make the need for startups to kind of get up and go on theirto own and then just insane amounts of money given out to the founders. >> we will talk about that. you portray him as someone that has a lot of ambition and a competitive side that what you haven't really touched on is the kind of immaturity she exem

>> napster is stealing from us. straight up.

they had seen what happened in the cd industry and how they have had been napstered. >> this is about idea. have you had any bad ones and what were they? >> i have had more bad ideas than you can imagine. in fact, i'd say 99 out of 100 of my ideas are bad ones. the difference, is i don't take one idea and bank everything on it. >> was there a moment in time that you participated in or knew of or found out about later during your 16-year absence from netflix when it dawned on you that you had literally changed the studio movie business for all time? >> i think the first inkling that we might actually have some influence actually came well before then. netflix has never been about mailing disks, it's not even about streaming. it's always been about giving customers entertainment they're going to love. at one point we had built our website so that it could dynamically determine what movie to show you. it would is how you a movie ar you a different movie and you a third movie. once we realized we could influence in a positive way what movie you might like to see, we realized that we had s