"We respect what they've done and regret any harm which this dispute may have caused to them...We now understand how important it is to Dr. Dre [and Metallica] to control how his music is distributed and to be paid for the effort and talent that go into crafting his records. We're pleased to report that our current system addresses his concerns and regret that we were not more sensitive to his concerns in the past."-- Napster

"I work hard making music, that's how I earn a living. Now that Napster's agreed to respect that, I don't have any beef with them."-- Dr. Dre.

"Our beef hasn't been with the concept of sharing music. The problem we had with Napster was that they never asked us or other artists if we wanted to participate in their business."--Metallica

Barring some sort of miracle, Napster is irrelevant.--research analyst.