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...center of the teen-pop revolution, you enter an unmarked, soot-colored brownstone in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. In his office on the 11th floor, behind his big wooden desk with its neatly organized stacks of CDs, Jive president Barry Weiss is a crackling wire of energy, jumping up to fetch a DVD from a shelf, scribbling memos, barking orders in a brisk, rat-tat-tat fashion. The walls of the native Long Islander's office are decorated with the trophies of two decades of conquests--half a dozen gold and platinum albums...
...music they sought, and enough power to locate and download it from their peers in a matter of heartbeats. Yet Morpheus is more than just the second coming of Napster--it is as indestructible as the Internet itself. "It can't be turned off, ever," says MusicCity CEO Michael Weiss. "Someone could walk into our data center in downtown L.A., shut down every server we have, and the network would continue...
Appropriately enough, Morpheus' holy trinity--Weiss, Smith and MusicCity.com founder Steve Griffin--is pretty decentralized. They live in Los Angeles, Scottsdale, Ariz., and Nashville, respectively, and work in virtual offices. They also licensed some of Morpheus' key technology from an Amsterdam-based company called Fast Track. All of which is not surprising, since the commodity they're dealing in is borderless. An advantage of Morpheus is that it enables users to hear tunes from around the world instantly, without having to wait for their local CD store to replenish its imports section. As Weiss says, "It's human nature...
...that the big record labels see it that way. But Weiss is a veteran of battles with the entertainment industry. As a video retailer in the late 1970s, when movie studios thought rental tapes would destroy them and pushed tape prices sky high, he took the retailers' case to Congress--and won a resounding victory...
...things we focused on in the preseason we executed very well. We need to work a little on our team defense, but it was a good start,” Weiss said...