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Shawn Fanning (born November 22, 1980) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing platforms, in 1999. The popularity of Napster was widespread and Fanning was featured on the cover of Time magazine.
Feb 19, 2024 · • Shawn Fanning is a 39-year-old Caucasian entrepreneur, computer scientist, programmer and angel investor. • He is best known for being the developer of Napster, a peer-to-peer file-sharing internet service.
Napster was founded by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker. Initially, Napster was envisioned by Fanning as an independent peer-to-peer file sharing service. The service operated between June 1999 and July 2001. Its technology enabled people to easily share their MP3 files with other participants.
Oct 2, 2000 · Shawn Fanning has become surprisingly thoughtful and well spoken–perhaps because, being at the center of an epochal lawsuit, he has had to. Although his guard is up these days, as you talk to...
May 31, 2019 · Napster was the brainchild of Shawn Fanning, a 19-year-old US computer hacker who had worked out a way to share music for free. It was, essentially, a cataloguing system that searched your...
Dec 21, 2009 · Napster founder Shawn Fanning at a press conference in February 2001, after an appeals court ruled that Napster likely violated copyright law by allowing Internet users to swap music files.
Apr 16, 2013 · I first met Napster inventor Shawn Fanning and cofounder Sean Parker in 2002, when I signed on to make a movie of their story for a major studio. The company was crumbling around them,...
Jul 12, 2017 · At the time, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker were just amateur developers with a simple idea: an online platform where users could easily swap songs, no strings attached. They called it Napster.
Feb 23, 2011 · Napster had been around since 1999, when Shawn Fanning and his uncle sunk some money into a music-distribution business and let a kid named Sean Parker hop onboard as a business partner. The...
Sep 12, 2013 · Shawn Fanning: What I've Learned. 33 (b. 1980); cofounder of Napster (and now Airtime, a video-chat hub); intellectual-property game changer. Published: Sep 12, 2013. Media Platforms...
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