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largely from author interviews with Rob Lord. Ian Rogers of Nullsoft was also interviewed.

32 David Weekly, a Stanford University student, did just that Weekly’s experiment is told in Sonic Boom, by John Alderman, Perseus Publishing, 2001.

33 as Michael Robertson found after he opened the website MP3.com Sources for the history of MP3.com included Beyond the Charts, by Bruce Haring, OTC Press, 2000.

33 Petty manager Tony Dimitriades The Tom Petty story is from Haring’s Beyond the Charts.

34 “They won’t cede control” Robertson’s quote is also from Beyond the Charts.

35 “I wanted to make this software work” Shawn’s quote is from the declaration in A&M Records.

36 the word “w00w00” was one of the top twenty most-searched-for terms Conover said he was told this by a friend who worked at Google.

36 “What are you going to do with it?” This was from Ritter’s recollection.

36 napster is a darks1de See http://www.00w00.org/files/misc/w00fun/w00quotes.

37 “Do you realize that this is going to change everything?” This was from McGann’s recollection.

37 some obvious bugs, which Ritter fixed The description of Ritter’s early role was largely from his recollection.

39 Shawn came by Ritter’s apartment The first business discussions between Shawn and Ritter were according to Ritter’s recollection.

3: birth of a business

41 took courses at Boston College According to the college registrar.

42 Fanning bought Ed Walter’s Cambridge Automation on credit Fanning lawyer Amy Hogue said the understanding was that Walter would be paid only if the business succeeded; Walter disputed that.

42 Fanning spent much of his time there Interviews with former Cambridge Automation employees, including Jack Martin and Duncan Audette.

42 Nevil had been fired The story of Aunyx Corp. was contained in Nevil v. Aunyx, Plymouth County Superior Court, case number CA85-21517. Attempts to locate Nevil for an interview by searching databases, visiting old addresses, and passing messages through relatives were unsuccessful.

42–43 Rockland won a judgment of more than $7 million Rockland Trust Co. v. Jack Nevil et al., Plymouth County Superior Court, case numbers CA89-1228-A and CA90-1055B.

43 Key supplier Unisys ultimately sued Unisys Corp. v. Cambridge Automation Corp., Suffolk County Superior Court, case number CA94-1211.

43 One regular player was a CMU computer-science professor named Danny Sleator The history of the Carnegie Mellon chess servers came from contemporaneous e-mails, interviews with Sleator and others, and the court file in

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