Part 10 (2/2)
Chad Paulson: From Menn, All the Rave All the Rave, pp. 134135. ”Some people got it”: Author interview with Erin Yasgar.
Super Bowl and ”Those opportunities met with failure”: Author interview with Ghuneim.
”We were saying, 'It's a new form of radio'”: Author interview with Pete Heimbold.
”I hit a point”: Author interview with Liz Brooks.
”If you can come up with another way”: Author interview with Bill Allen. ”If you can afford a computer”: Quoted in Menn, All the Rave All the Rave, p. 141.
”Napster spun it cleverly”: Author interview with Joel Amsterdam.
Lars Ulrich goes to Napster: From Menn, All the Rave All the Rave, pp. 144145. Napster employee asking for autograph: Author interview with Liz Brooks.
”my future husband”: Love quoted in Menn, All the Rave All the Rave, p. 258. Eileen Richardson meets Guy Oseary and Madonna and ”The RIAA went on the huge tour”: Author interview with Richardson. 136 ”three of the finest and best venture firms” and Doerr details: Author interview with Eileen Richardson.
”We felt that they had a pretty good case”: Author interview with Hank Barry.
George Borkowski and Sean Parker's email: From Menn, All the Rave All the Rave, p. 230.
David Boies biography and partic.i.p.ation: Author interview with Boies.
”Plaintiffs have shown persuasively”: From A&M Records Inc. et al. vs. Napster Inc. A&M Records Inc. et al. vs. Napster Inc., US District Court, Northern District of California, August 10, 2000. ”Oh my G.o.d”: Quoted in Menn, All the Rave All the Rave, p. 246.
Alex Kozinski background and ”This is like the playoffs”: From Menn, All the Rave All the Rave, pp. 248249.
Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s distaste for Napster: From Mann, Charles C., ”The Heavenly Jukebox: Rampant Music Piracy May Hurt Musicians Less Than They Fear,” The Atlantic The Atlantic, September 2000, pp. 3959. Bronfman also saw that the labels could make a lot of money: Author interviews with Bronfman and Hank Barry.
Idei...said in later interviews that j.a.panese law prohibited a service like Napster: From ”Interview with n.o.buyuki Idei-'We Have to Believe That We'll Be Out of the Darkness Someday',” Tech-On! Tech-On!, April 9, 2001.
Anti-Napster brigade and ”It became clear”: Confidential source.
”I very much wanted to make a deal with Napster”: Author interview with Edgar Bronfman Jr.
”These were business meetings”: Author interview with Hank Barry.
Sun Valley meetings and presence of Idei, Stringer, Middelhoff, and aides: Author interviews with Edgar Bronfman Jr., Hank Barry, Thomas Middelhoff, and John Hummer. Middelhoff squeezed himself between Hummer and Barry: From author interview with Middelhoff. ”Thomas, your seat's over here here”: Author interview with Barry. Bronfman says he doesn't remember but doubts anybody refused to sit next to anybody.
Bronfman recalls a...friendly, cordial relations.h.i.+p with the Napster people: Author interview with Bronfman. Napster and label execs didn't like each other and ”This was an unbelievably brief meeting”: Author interview with Thomas Middelhoff.
Hummer went ”radio-silent,” called Bronfman, and mentioned AOL's $2 billion offer: Author interview with Bronfman. ”Please think about it”: Bronfman-Hummer exchange from author interview with Bronfman.
Hummer denies claiming: Author interview with Hummer. AOL was interested but didn't make an offer: Author interview with George Vradenburg. Barry proposed a 50 percent: Author interview with Barry.
”It was not what the perception is”: Author interview with Al Smith.
Napster's peak of 26.4 million users in February 2001: This widely used estimate comes from Jupiter Media Metrix, ”Global Napster Usage Plummets, but New File-Sharing Alternatives Gaining Ground,” July 20, 2001.
”We will take down the music industry”: Quote from John Fanning comes from author interview with Eileen Richardson. ”I am the record companies' worst nightmare”: John Hummer quote from Tully, Shawn, ”Big Man Against Big Music,” Fortune, Fortune, August 14, 2000, p. 186. August 14, 2000, p. 186.
”I feel very strongly about that moment in time”: Author interview with Jeff Kwatinetz.
”Hating Hilary,” the Oxford debate, Rosen's personal background, and John Podesta quote: From Bai, Matt, ”Hating Hilary,” Wired Wired, February 2003, pp. 9496.
”Hilary, just stop it”: Author interview with Hilary Rosen.
”I think Al Smith enjoyed our meetings”: Author interview with Alan Citron.
Criticism of Rosen as disingenuous: Confidential sources.
”I say this with the most affection possible”: Author interview with Hilary Rosen.
Thomas Middelhoff biography: From Gunther, Marc, ”Bertelsmann's New Media Man,” Fortune Fortune, November 23, 1998, p. 176, and Kirkpatrick, David D., ”Thomas Middelhoff Has A Hunch,” New York Times Magazine New York Times Magazine, June 10, 2001, pp. 7277.
”He was a charming guy”: Author interview with Gerry Kearby.
a loan of $60 million: From Menn, All the Rave All the Rave, p. 264.
Middelhoff recalls Zelnick: Author interview with Middelhoff. ”Without our support or knowledge”: Author interview with Zelnick.
”Easy way to be in the headlines”: Author interview with Al Smith.
$120,000 salary and $60,000 bonus: From Menn, All the Rave All the Rave, p. 265. ”He was like the most positive and optimistic person”: Author interview with Shawn Fanning, 2007.
Ess.e.x House detail and ”When a Napster user is sitting at his PC”: From Kirkpatrick, New York Times Magazine, New York Times Magazine, June 10, 2001, pp. 7277. June 10, 2001, pp. 7277.
”It was just terrible”: Author interview with Shawn Fanning, 2007.
[Hilbers] figured $30 million: From Menn, All the Rave All the Rave, p. 284. $95 million: Ibid., p. 289. Fanning and Middelhoff secret plan: Ibid., p. 301.
”Essentially, that was the end of the game”: Author interview with Lyn Jensen.
Cute MX and Gnutella background: From Menn, All the Rave All the Rave, pp. 170175.
”The AOL people said, 'This could be dangerous'”: Author interview with Howie Klein. ”Neither Warner Music nor anyone else there”: Anonymous AOL executive from Swisher, Kara, There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003), p. 187. ”Napster is good”: Ibid., p. 186. (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003), p. 187. ”Napster is good”: Ibid., p. 186.
Big Music's Big Mistakes, Part 6: The Secure Digital Music Initiative SDMI itinerary provided by Randy Cole. $5 million to $10 million, from Harris, Ron, ”Whatever Happened to SDMI?,” Salon Salon, April 29, 2002, which reports that each of the 200 partic.i.p.ating companies paid $20,000 to be on the panel. That comes out to $4 million. Some former SDMI members say the costs were higher.
The meetings began informally: Author interviews with Gary Johnson, Randy Cole, and David W. Stebbings.
SDMI T-s.h.i.+rts: Author interview with Albhy Galuten. $200,000 logo and ”It's quite a nice logo!”: Author interview with Randy Cole, who provided a picture of the logo.
SDMI...portable-device specifications: From Secure Digital Music Initiative, ”SDMI Portable Device Specification, Vol. 1,” July 8, 1999. Label reps loved it. Electronics firms hated: This is the opinion of several SDMI members, including David W. Stebbings, Randy Cole, Gary Johnson, and others.
Leonardo Chiariglioni background: From chiariglioni.org and author interview with Chiariglioni. ”the Famous Leonardo”: Author interview with Randy Cole. ”Leonardo was essentially a technology socialist”: Author interview with Talal Shamoon.
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