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Former Napster CEO Sues Best Buy
Chris Gorog filed a suit against the company Thursday, alleging that Best Buy did not honor his severances agreement.
Follow Richfield Patch on Twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our daily newsletter As if Best Buy wasn't dealing with enough, the big-box retailer is now being sued by former Napster CEO Chris Gorog. The suit was filed Thursday in Minnesota's U.S. District Court. According to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal, Gorog's suit alleges that Best Buy didn't honor his severance agreement and attempted to short-change him when it sold Napster to competitor Rhapsody in 2011. Gorog acquired the near-bankrupt Napster in 2002 and turned the free—and as many will remember, copyright-violating—music sharing site into a legitimate business with more than $100 million in sales, according to the business journal report. Best Buy …
