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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. [1]
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.
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,...
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...
Apr 27, 2003 · By Matt Richtel. April 27, 2003. IN the Internet boom, Shawn Fanning became a symbol of an era. Mr. Fanning, the wunderkind hacker, was just a college student when he devised Napster, which...
Sep 5, 2013 · Shawn Fanning is a teenager hanging out on the messaging service Internet Relay Chat. He’s on a channel called w00w00, a hacker network.
Dec 8, 2014 · In 1999, a file-sharing program created in a Boston dorm room sent shock waves across the music industry and served notice that a major cultural shift was underway. Produced by: Retro Report Read...
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.
Fanning transformed a software script he wrote to help a roommate retrieve digital music files from the Internet into a full-featured online swap service millions of users strong.
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