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Notes

All oral quotes are from author interviews with the speaker unless otherwise noted. All e-mails, internal documents, and court papers referenced in the text are have been seen by the author unless otherwise noted. If any of the Web pages cited below no longer have the content listed, try http://web.archive.org, which is attempting to preserve as many old web-sites as possible. John Fanning declined to be interviewed; when his intermediaries spoke on his behalf, it is noted in the text.

vii Observe my uncle The entire text of William Shakespeare's Hamlet is available online and is not protected by copyright. (Neither are many old books, nor songs from the forties and before.) Hamlet's uncle killed Hamlet's father. It takes some time for the indecisive Hamlet to figure that out.

Prologue: A Party out of Control

5 a pleasant cocoon The account of the rave was drawn from interviews with Jordan Ritter, Sean Parker, Eileen Richardson, and Shawn Fanning.

6 It had been a blur to Shawn Sources included Shawn, Richard Besciak, and fellow high school students.

6 Sponsoring it Parker's background was drawn from interviews with Parker and others.

7 The third member Ritter's background was drawn from interviews with Ritter and others.

8 Richardson was thirty-eight Richardson's background was drawn from interviews with Richardson and others.

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