Historical note: SoNet was an Internet service provider, and one of its leading lights, Chris Cain, was a former MUD1 player (as well as being a well-respected computer games journalist). He asked to put MUD2 on the system, and a small community rapidly developed (never quite getting big enough to be major, but nevertheless full of vitality). When the time came to charge, though, the business model for SoNet had changed, and they had a problem of how to pay MUSE any royalties. The eventual solution was to close down SoNet's site and move all the players over to Dragon, which made the latter a powerful force. Perhaps too powerful: it wasn't long afterwards that Interplay began its play for exclusivity.