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To: John F Beule who wrote (3588)	6/18/1999 9:12:00 AM
From: John F Beule	Respond to of 5843

From Liquid/EMI release: 'The company is further jumping on the portable device trend, working with Iomega to "offer consumers a way to securely download music from the Internet directly onto Iomega's Zip disks," the filing said. "As part of this initiative, Iomega will be bundling the Liquid Music Player with selected Zip drives." Earlier this month, Web music firm Atomic Pop said it would release rap group Public Enemy's latest album using Iomega Zip disks." .....Let's see, IOM will probably be bankrupt before Liquid goes public.

To: John F Beule who wrote (3588)	6/18/1999 9:14:00 AM
From: Lane Hall-Witt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5843

I bought in recently on the bounce off the bottom. It's a great vote of confidence that RNWK got the secondary off at 58 just days after it plunged to 51. I was expecting a little worse, but still decided to view this as an intermediate-term hold instead of trading in and out of the stock. If RNWK figures out how to leverage its huge user base, this stock will have tremendous upside. They have something like 57.5 million registered users of their streaming products. With a current market cap of about $4.3 billion (including the new shares), that is $75 per user. The problem is that RNWK is operating like NSCP before NetCenter, when it was just a software company. As an aside, I'd say Jeff Bezos isn't as smart as everyone thinks he is. Why take an interest in Liquid when RNWK is right across town with a database of 57.5 million users? That looks like the wrong partnership to me.