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still working for Napster when they spoke, I want to especially thank Shawn Fanning and Ricki Seidman, who prevailed on employees to meet me. My own employer, the Los Angeles Times, showed remarkable forbearance in giving me six weeks’ leave at a time when not one but two of the Fortune 100 companies I cover were embroiled in public trials. I want to thank editor John Carroll, managing editor Dean Baquet, business editor Bill Sing, and senior technology editor Russ Stanton, who helped me in more ways than I can say. Thanks also to digital-music writer Jon Healey and the talented colleagues who filled in for me. And I am grateful to the readers of my early drafts, Anthony Effinger, Mark Saylor, and Samantha Zee; my editor, Doug Pepper, and others at Crown; my agent and friend Elizabeth Kaplan, who strides from mountaintop to mountaintop; journalist Dan Goodin, who raised the first questions about John Fanning; Celia Francis, for crucial introductions; and the queen of hospitality during my stay in Boston, Rachel Layne.

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