Alright. Thanks to everyone who has provided clarifications so far.
Some prominent questions:
-If anyone has a reasonable date for when pirate actually started his operation, please let me know. It doesn't need to be exact, but I'm looking to see if we can't pin down an earliest date and/or other details.
-If anyone knows the dates when the vote to take FPS&T to invite only started and ended, that would also be helpful.
-If anyone knows when the first passthroughs started, what type they were, or any other specifics on that. Also quotes of why pirate claimed to discourage them originally, or quotes from when he decided to allow them.
The 'private business plan' was a user's working theory I believe. Double check this.
That was patrick's summation, but it is my understanding that it was more or less paraphrasing things pirate had told him in private conversations. If pirate comes up with something better or different in court, he will still have to prove it.