Europe’s Plan to Beat Silicon Valley at Its Own Game

In 2001, the company lawyers had arranged a meeting with RIAA and MPAA—big teams of lawyers flying in from the East Coast to meet in their lawyers’ office in Beverly Hills on a Friday. On that Wednesday, they found an internal memo leaked from the organizations they were supposed to meet that called them “Public Enemy No 1 operating offshore.” The memo said “it was imperative to make an example of us,” he recalls with a slight smile.

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“Instead of going to the meeting, we were driving around and around while the lawyers were doing their thing. Later in the evening, when we went

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