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Shawn and Parker were given in interviews. The surrounding events and Andreessen’s quote are from a Bloomberg News article carried on CNet’s site on May 22.

215 Barry harbored a rebellious streak His career was described by Barry and others in interviews.

220 Zero Gravity, whose smaller shareholders included The story of Zero Gravity came mainly from the 2001 lawsuit Zero Gravity Management v. John Hummer et al., San Francisco Superior Court, case number 321442, with additional material from interviews and from articles in the June 22, 2001, San Francisco Business Times and the July 9, 2001, BusinessWeek. The last is available at http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01__28/b3740101.htm.

220 she said at the time The “sticky” quote is from the March 19, 1999, Puget Sound Business Journal.

220 Johnston, who had to sue for access Phoenix Partners IV et al. v. Rival Networks, King County Superior Court, case number 01-2-13876-6SEA.

221 “I am the record companies’ worst nightmare” Quoted in August 14, 2000, Fortune and available at http://www.fortune.com/indext.jhtml?channel=print__article.jhtml&doc__id=00000758.

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225 Russell Frackman, the fifty-five-year-old Los Angeles attorney Frackman, court rulings, and his firm’s documents were the sources for his career.

228 didn’t stop his uncle from claiming Napster’s application for a patent on its “Real-time search engine” was filed on December 15, 1999, and granted on April 2, 2002, and given number 6,366,907. It can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=ft00&S1=Fanning-Shawn.INZZ.&OS=IN/Fanning-Shawn&RS=IN/Fanning-Shawn.

230 Borkowski had been working until near midnight This account was drawn from Borkowski, Parker, and the deposition transcript.

234 When Napster called, Boies was out of town The story of Boies’s decision to take the case and his quotes were from the October 2000 issue of Wired magazine, available at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/boies__pr.html.

241 He estimated there was only a 10 percent chance According to a Fanning e-mail cited in a BusinessWeek story of August 14, 2000, and available at http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00__33/b3694001.htm.

246 Barry scribbled out a statement on the spot Ibid.

246 Parker was in Virginia and called Parker’s recollection.

247 Shawn played it populist cool for MTV A transcript of the MTV interview is available at http://www.mtv.com/bands/archive/n/napster00/?__requestid=260347.

247 “Napster” became the most-searched-for term The Lycos 50 for August 1. Available at http://50.lycos.com/080100.html.

248 But Kozinski was excited This account was drawn from interviews with two well-placed sources inside the appeals court.

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