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size=2><SPAN class=837210623-31102008>>> <FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000 size=3>there WASN'T a online music business before they invented
it. </FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=837210623-31102008><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode"
color=#0000ff size=2>napster - and their business model was fantastically
successful, just not financially successful. Their Business, according to
Shawn: Vengeance. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2><snip> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=b-Plain>"Many people have speculated on how we intended to make money.
While some details will likely remain hidden forever, today I'd like to clarify
what we were up to, and it's very simple: Vengeance.</P>
<P class=b-Plain>"Yes, vengeance. Although I wrote the code as an exercise in
Windows programming, Napster as a corporation was financed and promoted by a
group of established musical artists who felt that that had been treated
unfairly by the recording industry, but had still managed to tour, record, and
sell records successfully despite the impediments and outright theft by the
major record labels. Having achieved some degree of independent financial
security, they now sought to extract revenge on the very executives that had
stole royalties, inflated tour expenses, and yes, even questioned the need for
three-dimensional pop outs in their album covers.</P>
<P class=b-Plain><SPAN class=837210623-31102008>...</SPAN></P>
<P class=b-Plain><SPAN class=837210623-31102008> To paraphrase Joe Walsh,
one of our silent partners, 'Account for THIS royalty,
MCA!'</SPAN></P></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=837210623-31102008><FONT
face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#0000ff size=2><snip></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2><A
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<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ron Geoffrion</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>913.488.7664</FONT></SPAN>
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