CNet/ZDNet UK reported on Napster’s joke purchase of Microsoft — but who had the last laugh? The site quoted Sidd Finch of GigaLaw, who said he wrote the hoax press release. Finch? You may recall that’s the same name of the baseball pitcher who could throw the ball 163 miles per hour and was introduced to the world in a George Plimpton Sports Illustrated cover story on April 1, 1985.
