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> Had his "startup" been in Sillicon Valley, he had been in jail a long time ago. I'm hoping the founders of Napster get early release from jail. They've done
by anu_gupta 12y ago
> Had his "startup" been in Sillicon Valley, he had been in jail a long time ago.
I'm hoping the founders of Napster get early release from jail. They've done their time, surely.
- tinco 12y ago"Napster agreed to pay music creators and copyright owners a $26 million settlement for past, unauthorized uses of music, as well as an advance against future licensing royalties of $10 million" Have you ever seen Kim engage in talks for a settlement? Would it even make sense for the industry to settle at this point? You think Sean Parker would still be a free man if he would just continued running Napster as it was? (The Dread Pirate Roberts was also running an innovative business where users could exchange government restricted goods through a P2P system with a centralized registry, look where that got him)
- tokipona 12y agoAnd Scribd, and YouTube etc, etc.