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Or a sudden change of course of the business and simultaneous departures. Obviously not everyone was on-board.

When the RIAA went started suing mp3 downloaders, the CEO left for “family reasons”, but a few decades later it came out that they saw downloading music off the internet as their future business model. Napster was a representation of her vision of a virtual jukebox that could play any song ever made.

(Can’t remember for the life of me which documentary she was filmed describing that)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Rosen



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