Shawn Fanning
Shawn Fanning
Shawn Fanningis an American computer programmer, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peerfile sharing platforms, in 1999. The popularity of Napster was widespread and Fanning was featured on the cover of Time magazine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth22 November 1980
CityBrockton, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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I am grateful they are now showing that leadership when it comes to using technology to make music more accessible.
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I wasn't really sure that my implementation of it would be what really took off, but fortunately I was able to get a prototype done.
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We're close to moving into a new phase of Napster and this agreement is an important step along the way.
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He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.
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I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly.
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It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.
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Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.