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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.
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.
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...
Napster ... Napster was an American peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing application primarily associated with digital audio file distribution. 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.
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,...
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...
Shawn Fanning is a prominent American angel investor, entrepreneur, and computer programmer. In the year 1999, he developed one of the first popular peer-to-peer (“P2P”) file-sharing platforms known as Napster.
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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