Early Success

Musk became a millionaire after the sale in 1999 of his Korn fansite kornfreaksunleashed.angelfire.com.[34] The site was highly regarded in Korn fandom for its note-perfect bass tablature. In August 1999, Musk posted in article in which he determined to a high degree of mathematical certainty that Fieldy's slap bass riffs were largely copied from interstitial music used on the TV sitcom Seinfeld. Korn's management, fearing a damaging lawsuit if the notoriously litigious Seinfeld were to become aware of the theft, bought the site from Musk for $2 million and deleted all trace of the article.[35]

Unfortunately, I couldn't find where this came from originally.