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This reminds me of when Shawn Fanning of Napster visited my university in 2000. He came along with some corporate guys that seemed like his body guards and filters for anything he said. The discussion revolved around the whole Napster debate of course and the main business guy said they wanted to start charging a couple of dollars per song to make it legal. When time came for questions, I asked why they didn't just move their operations to a country where they would be within the legal limits to continue Napster as it was. His answer was basically "we just don't want to", which wasn't very satisfying. Now after allofmp3.com made their millions, I wonder if they regret not doing something like that. Of course, I'm sure there were compelling factors that would prevent well-known american businessmen from circumventing the system in that manner. Looks like Mendel doesn't suffer from the same limitations.



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