DESK 2 — FILE OPEN
FOLDER N-0711CASE #2001-0711SHELF 4 / ROW C
CLOSED
BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL DEATHS
DIVISION OF COLD CASES / FORM 41-D / DEATH OF A GOING CONCERN
CASE NUMBER
CASE #2001-0711
SUBJECT
NAPSTER, INC.
DATE OPENED
June 1999 — Hull, Massachusetts
DATE CLOSED
July 11, 2001
KNOWN ALIASES
Assets to Roxio, then Best Buy, then Rhapsody
INVESTIGATOR
Det. Redact
CAUSE OF DEATH
Subject distributed 2,600,000,000 files per month that it did not own.
PEAK VALUATION
80,000,000 registered users; revenue of $0
ASSETS RECOVERED
Brand sold at auction for $2,430,000
CLASSIFICATION — MARK ONE
FRAUD
NEGLIGENCE
✕HUBRIS
MARKET FORCES
UNKNOWN
EVIDENCE SUMMARY
Subject was ordered to remove infringing material and complied with a filtering accuracy of 99.4 percent.
The remaining six-tenths of one percent was found sufficient grounds for closure.
Subject’s users dispersed into three successor networks within the month. None were subject to the order.
Remainder of statement sealed:
FILED BY Det. Redact · BADGE 0001NO FURTHER ACTION AUTHORIZED
PROPERTY OF THE BUREAUDO NOT REMOVE FROM ROOM 0114
MARGIN NOTE — INVESTIGATING OFFICER
It never earned a dollar and it changed everything. That combination is not among the boxes I am permitted to mark.
Killed the file. Not the habit.
EVIDENCE TAG
ITEM N-0711
SUBJECT NAPSTER, INC.
RECEIVED 2001
CONDITION AS FOUND
SUBJECT NAPSTER, INC.
RECEIVED 2001
CONDITION AS FOUND