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Napster, music file-sharing computer service created by American college student Shawn Fanning in 1999. The file sharing that resulted set in motion a legal battle over digital rights and the development of digital rights management software to prevent computer copyright piracy.
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 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...
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...
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...
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