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9 As the good feeling Sources on Fanning's history and his relationship with Shawn are given in subsequent chapters.

10 Since Amram had been burned Interviews with Amram, Richardson, and others.

1: the rebels

13 It was in a ramshackle old house The chief source for the account of the party was Coleen Verrier. Joe Rando provided details on the band.

14 “Money was always a pretty big issue” Shawn quoted in “Napster's Shawn Fanning: The Teen Who Woke Up Web Music,” by Spencer Ante, available at http://www.businessweek.com/ebiz/0004/em0412.htm. The account of the rest of Shawn's childhood was drawn from interviews with Verrier, Shawn, and other sources indicated in the text.

16 John Fanning lived an hour away Sources included several former Chess.net employees.

16 His uncle wanted to keep playing StarCraft Sources included Parker, Ritter, and a former Chess.net employee.

18 Shok's work is available See, for example, http://www.hackersclub.com/km/files/unix/.

19 “I don't see what's so bad about writing viral code” This and other w00w00 exchanges archived at http://www.w00w00.org/files/misc/w00fun/w00quotes.

20 Shawn was an aspiring hacker who was at best a gray hat These programs were available at http://www.younghackers.freeservers.com/files2.htm.

21 He badly wanted to go to Carnegie Mellon Coleen Verrier.

21 Ritter was born Ritter's background was drawn from interviews with Ritter and others.

23 BindView was publicly credited for the find by CERT See http://www.infosec.com/internet/99/internet__021399c_j.shtml and http://www.packetsormecurity.com/9902-exploits/ftpd.txt.

23 Sean Parker's was a paragon of normality Parker's background was drawn from interviews with Parker and others.

2: a big idea

29 It was hardly worth the effort to try The description of the inspiration for Napster came from Shawn's nonpublic deposition in A&M Records et al. v. Napster Inc., U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, case number C 99-5183 MHP.

29 “The index would become out of date” These two quotes are from Shawn's declaration, available in the A&M Records public court file.

29–30 The entire point of the World Wide Web Berners-Lee's thinking and comments are from Weaving the Web, by Tim Berners-Lee with Mark Fischetti, Harper SanFrancisco, 1999.

30 Rob Lord and Jeff Patterson, two computer- and information-science majors The account of the Internet Underground Music Archive and Nullsoft was drawn

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