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50 Lynch was pursuing a suit Robert Lynch v. Coreen Kraysler, John Fanning et al., Plymouth Superior Court (Plymouth), case number PLCV2001-01481.

50 the condo complex workers’ compensation insurer Sentry Insurance v. David Fanning and John Fanning, Plymouth Superior Court (Brockton), case number CA01-1551.

51 Lawrence Lessig and others have argued convincingly In, among other places, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Basic Books, 1999, and The Future of Ideas, Random House, 2001.

51 “Through 1996, most of what happened to the Web was driven by pure excitement” Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web.

53 “He felt strongly he had something to do in the world” Rasala’s comment is from “Hi, I’m Napster,” by Linda Gorov, available at http://www.boston.com/ dailyglobe2/163/nation/_ _Hi__I__m__Napster__.shtml.

55 When Shawn told Sean Parker about it, Parker couldn’t believe it Interviews with Parker.

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57 John Fanning may have sewn up 70 percent John Fanning took 7 million shares and Shawn 3 million. Most internal documents said that 1 million additional shares were reserved for future employee options; at least one document says 2 million shares were reserved.

60 Sam Hanks, twenty-seven, met Parker, Shawn, and Fanning The story of the logo was from Hanks and Parker.

60 Grosfeld and Lilienthal worked well as a team The account of the pair’s involvement with and study of Napster was mainly from interviews with the two men and with Parker.

62 It called for Draper to put in $500,000 According to Grosfeld and Parker. Draper’s later e-mails to Amram cited the same figure.

67 John Fanning, also well aware of the legal hurdles, was doing his own research Interviews with Andrew Bridges, Seth Greenstein, and Parker.

71 Draper agreed to give Napster only a $50,000 loan The loan was described in interviews with Amram, Parker, and Richardson, among others. The exact terms have long been disputed, but the basics of it included here were drawn from internal Napster e-mails.

77 Andy Evans, on the other hand, was something completely different Sources for Evans’s history included “Andrew Evans Blows His Second Chance,” available at http://www.redherring.com/index.asp?layout=story&channel=20000002&doc__id= 110019811 and “Gates’ Old Pal Evans Target of Biz2Net’s Wild Fraud Lawsuit,” available at http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=2832.

79 Fanning had met Amram years earlier The history of Amram’s relationship with Fanning was largely from interviews with Amram.

80 Individual was based Sources for the history of Individual included interviews with Amram and others at the company and the prospectus for the sale of its

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