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Napster was a peer-to-peer (P2P) digital audio file sharing computer application that became notorious for internet music piracy between 1999 and 2001. Founded by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, the platform originally launched on June 1, 1999. Audio shared on the service was typically encoded in the MP3 format.
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, and both...
Jun 6, 2014 · “Fuck Napster!”—Dr. Dre. Fifteen years ago, two teenagers revolutionized the way we share and listen to music. At the time, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker were just amateur developers with a...
Oct 2, 2000 · Meet the Napster - TIME. Shawn Fanning was 18 when he wrote the code that changed the world. His fate, and ours, is now in the court's hands. By Karl Taro Greenfeld/Redwood City Monday, Oct....
Shawn Fanning has done all three since founding the cultural juggernaut Napster in a Northeastern University dorm in 1999. Fanning transformed a software script he wrote to help a roommate...
Nov 3, 2003 · Shawn Fanning, a teenager at Northeastern University with a bent for computer technology, built Napster in 1999 into a household name—and a target for record labels unhappy with the thought of users trading copyrighted music for free. So how did a business with 70 million users collapse so fast?
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...
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