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Index

A

A&M (recording company), 216

Accidental Empires (Cringely), 189

Adaptec Inc., 305

Adobe Acrobat graphic files, 239

Affleck, Ben, 115

Alden, Chris, 114

Allen, Herb, 250

Allen, Karen, 160

Alsop, Stewart, 204–5

AltaVista, 35, 176, 239

Altholtz, Howard, 319–20

Amazon.com, 159

America Online, 25, 38, 175, 250–51, 285

Bertelsmann AG and, 262, 285

Instant Messenger, 322

Napster takeover and, 237–38

share price of, 301

Warner Brothers records and, 149, 153

Amram, Joseph (“Yosi”), 78–84, 87–89,

116, 126, 160, 163, 207, 208

Angel Investors and, 110–11

Bertelsmann acquisition bid and, 292–93,

294, 299

Draper Atlantic and, 116–18

on John Fanning, 93–94

at Individual, Inc., 79–83, 94

Napster shares of, 192–93, 194

as Napster’s initial investor, 8, 9–10, 85

post-Napster activities of, 318

Richardson and, 88, 91, 93, 94, 208, 317

Andreessen, Marc, 11, 115, 188, 220

Angel Investors LP, 110–11, 112, 293–94

antitrust laws, 152, 154, 285–86, 313

AOL. See America Online

AOL Europe, 282

AppleSoup, 202

Army, U.S., 315

ArtistDirect, 32

Association de Malfaiteurs (ADM), 18

Asylum, 22, 23

Atlas Venture, 91

Audette, Duncan, 43

Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, 235,

242, 244, 269, 270, 272, 277

Augusta Chronicle (newspaper), 94

Aunyx Corp., 42, 46

Avalon, Moses, 151

Avnet, Jon, 203

Aydar, Ali, 45, 47, 52, 103, 145, 177, 191

Napster shares of, 192

B

Back to Basics tour (2000), 137

Backus, John, 61

Bagg, Gerald, 203

Baker & McKenzie, 315

Bales, Bill, 87, 91, 163

background of, 87, 93–98

Business Week Napster cover story and,

316

criminal record of, 96–97

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