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Which cultures are we talking about? I assume not the US.
Look at Sean Parker - Napster got sued to oblivion, he became first president of Facebook and made literal billions.
His cofounder (Shawn Fanning) didn’t make it quite as big, but still sold a company to Blizzard for $30m. Plus whatever he made out of HNT.
Neither seemed to suffer any kind of stigma for their involvement in arguably the highest profile piracy startup.
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Which cultures are we talking about? I assume not the US.
Look at Sean Parker - Napster got sued to oblivion, he became first president of Facebook and made literal billions.
His cofounder (Shawn Fanning) didn’t make it quite as big, but still sold a company to Blizzard for $30m. Plus whatever he made out of HNT.
Neither seemed to suffer any kind of stigma for their involvement in arguably the highest profile piracy startup.