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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 · Fanning only dimly recalls that period in mid-1999, when he wrote the source code for the music file-sharing program called Napster. He can’t remember specific months, weeks or days. He was...
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.
Apr 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 enraged the recording industry by...
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...
Jul 12, 2017 · At the time, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker were just amateur developers with a simple idea: an online platform where users could easily swap songs, no strings attached. They called it 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.
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 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.
