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There needs to be an option for Bootstrapped + shot down by lawyer-types

• SapphireSun 17y ago
  I'm curious. Is this something that we should generally watch out for? It's okay if you can't talk about it.
  • jcl 17y ago
    I'm especially curious to hear if it was patents (someone claimed to own our process) or copyright (someone caught us making a "social music/video" site).
    • amohr 17y ago
      It was a social music site, it stretched fair use within reason, but we would have had to strike deals with the major labels to be fully functional. We ended up in a meeting with Hank Barry (CEO of Napster in 2000) and he straight told us that there was no way we could both do business with record labels and be profitable.