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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.
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.
Oct 2, 2000 · At dawn, Shawn Fanning lay on the brown carpet in the shadow of a converted bar counter, consumed by the idea. He had been awake 60 straight hours writing code on his...
Jun 25, 2024 · 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.
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?
Dec 8, 2014 · Subscribed. 8.4K. 707K views 9 years ago. 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...
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...
Shawn Fanning. Internet and Web. Not many undergrads write world-changing code, appear on the covers of Time, Fortune and BusinessWeek, or testify in front of U.S.Senate committees before they...
Sep 12, 2013 · Shawn Fanning: What I've Learned. 33 (b. 1980); cofounder of Napster (and now Airtime, a video-chat hub); intellectual-property game changer. Published: Sep 12, 2013. Media Platforms Design Team.
