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	Shawn Fanning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shawn "Napster" Fanning (born 1980 in Brockton, Massachusetts, USA) developed Napster, the first popular peer-to-peer filesharing platform, in 1999.
		Motivated by a friend of his who was having difficulties accessing the MP3 files he wanted, Fanning spent months of little sleep writing the code for a program that could provide an easy way to download music.
		Fanning recently launched a new company, SNOCAP, Inc., aimed at keeping track of music for copyright holders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shawn_Fanning (213 words)

	Internet File Sharing: Shawn Fanning
		Shawn Fanning was an eighteen year old drop out from Northeastern University.
		According to Time.com, Shawn allegedly was "holed up for days without sleep in his uncle's office, tapping out code for a music-swapping program." Little did he realize at that time the importance of what he was about to do or the resulting storm of controversy he was about to unleash.
		Fanning was not looking to make a profit from his software; it was more or less his contribution to the internet.
	www.rit.edu /~mts7147/imm/finalproject/fanning.html (148 words)

	Shawn Fanning - The Napster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Shawn Fanning was only 18 when he developed the code that created Napster, a file-sharing program that allows people to swap songs with each other through the Internet.
		Fanning, now 19, worked night and day, day and night, without coming up for air, for fear that someone else would beat him to creating a program as extraordinary as Napster, and all of his hard work would be for nothing.
		Fanning and his company are being sued by record labels and artists, prominently Metallica, for copyright infringement and other such violations.
	www.leahhesterman.com /sites/napster/importance.html (157 words)

	Shawn Fanning's Napster
		Shawn Fanning was the brains behind the popular Internet startup, but it was his uncle, John Fanning of Hull, who called the shots - and pocketed an estimated $1 million before the business went bankrupt.
		Shawn had good reason to be happy that night in May 2000, beyond the new money and his residual pride in creating the fastest-growing business of all time.
		Shawn figured that there should be a way to combine the breadth of search engines like Google with the "presence awareness" of systems like instant messaging, which know who is signed on at any given time.
	www.jimgilliam.com /2003/04/shawn_fannings_napster.php (4026 words)

	NAPSTER CAR FOR SALE
		Shawn Fanning, the co-founder of MP3 sharing company Napster, is selling his car.
		Fanning is alleged to have used "Hi, I'm Napster" as a chat-up line while frequenting local bars and nightclubs.
		Napster have not confirmed that the auction was initiated by Shawn Fanning or that the car genuinely belongs to him.
	www.tobyslater.com /articles/dotmusic/062700b.html (291 words)

	Assignment I Final Draft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Shawn was listening to his roommate complain about dead hyperlinks as he searched to download digital music files, known in the computer world as MP3s (Gorov 22).
		Fanning realized that there had to be an easier way to find music online, and so the earliest concept of Napster came into being.
		Shawn, while all this occurs, longs for the days when it was only he and his thirty Internet Relay Chat buddies, before Napster grew so immensely popular and so immensely hated.
	www.louisville.edu /~hnlaws01/102assign1final.html (1032 words)

	Shawn "Napster" Fanning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Shawn and John Fanning always got along together, and John would often lend Shawn computer equipment and whatever else he could find.
		John gave Shawn a job at NetGames, one of his many companies he started, and let him work on various programming projects to his heart's content (although he had a reputation for not finishing what he started).
		Shawn eventually went to college at Northeastern, where he gained the nickname "Napster" from his nappy hairstyle.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/hackers/napster (538 words)

	WHAT'S MY STYLE — Shawn Fanning
		Shawn actually listens and takes the best part of what you say." For Visionarys, criticism is prized as there are few who are willing to give strong criticism.
		Shawn is described as having an easy-going, wide-stepping stride and upper-body muscularity that seem out of place on a programmer--going to the gym most evenings, as if bulking up for his showdown with the record industry.
		And, as Fanning predicted, his program does everything a Web application is supposed to do: it builds community, it breaks down barriers, it is viral, it is scalable, it disintermediates--and, oh, yeah, it may be illegal.
	personal.ansir.com /wms/fanning.htm (1050 words)

	In defense of Shawn Fanning
		However, Shawn Fanning is not a pirate nor does he or Napster's software license agreement condone copyright violation.
		According to this act, the buyers of CDs or cassettes have the right to, not only make a copy for their own personal use, but also to make copies for friends as long as they are not selling the copies or receiving any other type of compensation.
		Napster fans argue that sharing music is perfectly legal since the law does not specify who the friends must be or how many of them can receive a copy.
	www.ucs.mun.ca /~emurphy/fanning.html (952 words)

	BW e.biz--04/12/00--Movers & Shakers: Napster's Shawn Fanning: The Teen Who Woke Up Web Music
		Back in Brockton, Mass., in 1980, the Fannings were a big clan stuffed into a three-bedroom house -- a family with eight children that, in the words of John Fanning, had "climbed back out of homelessness into poverty." At the time, John was 14 and his older sister, Colleen, was 17.
		But Shawn's biological father, who happened to be the son of one of the richest families in Massachusetts, bailed out.
		John Fanning puts forth the interesting argument that "Napster represents an opportunity for the record industry to monetize the activity because it's centralized." Pre-Napster, it was impossible to track the circulation of MP3 files because people would get them from any number of sources.
	www.businessweek.com /ebiz/0004/em0412.htm (1420 words)

	G4 - Feature - Behind the Music: The Napster Story
		Shawn and Rando hit it off, and they stayed in touch during all the craziness that Shawn was about to go through.
		Shawn's friends believed that Shawn wasn't kidding, and that if his uncle was kidding, the humor was much darker than what they were used to.
		Shawn's nickname in the group was Napster, which he had picked up on the basketball court for the short, nappy hair he sported before shaving it off.
	www.g4tv.com /screensavers/features/43842/Behind_the_Music_The_Napster_Story.html (2302 words)

	Napster's Fanning has Snocap-ped vision \| CNET News.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fanning's role as the creator of the music industry's archenemy does not seem to be holding him back.
		Fanning's return to the peer-to-peer world is one of the most ambitious of several ongoing attempts to bring about a detente between file-swapping networks and record labels, which have been at war almost since the day Napster launched in 1999.
		Fanning has been explaining his ideas to record label executives, who are interested but not entirely sold, sources said.
	news.com.com /2100-1025_3-5146858.html (1303 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| 'Mom, I blew up the music industry'
		At 19, Shawn Fanning has a number one haircut, a half-finished degree in computer studies, and is being sued by his favourite band, Metallica.
		These three facts all contribute to the rather complicated mess Fanning's got himself into, and explain how a nerdy Boston college kid ended up a paper multi-millionaire, an international youth icon, and the centre of a legal storm that will ultimately decide the nature of the music industry's future.
		I'm a big fan and to hear him actually explain how music will evolve online, how this is a good thing for the artist, and present a strong articulate argument - that makes me feel really good,' he says, slurping a Pepsi Max through a straw.
	www.observer.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,223075,00.html (1608 words)

	Wired News: The Day the Napster Died
		When founder Shawn Fanning and CEO Konrad Hilbers abruptly resigned on Tuesday, the company that launched the most innovative Internet program was gone, just like that.
		Fans have revolted; last year proved to be one of the worst in recent memory for CD sales because of it.
		Fanning began bouncing ideas for Napster off Sean Parker, whom he met using Internet Relay Chat, when they were beta-testing a program with a few friends in the summer of 1999.
	www.wired.com /news/mp3/0,1285,52540,00.html (718 words)

	Forbes.com - Magazine Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		John Fanning's track record, which I report for the first time, shows a history of failed or failing businesses, employees denied their due, multiple lawsuits, a tendency to mix personal and business affairs...
		JOSEPH_MENN: Shawn's comments to others, and the contents of his hard drive when examined by record industry lawyers, both show him to be a serious rap fan, fond of Snoop Dogg and Dr.Dre, among others.
		As Shawn's mother put it to me, it would have been a good idea if Napster had sorted out all of the copyright issues before people started investing and the company moved to California and the big time.
	www.forbes.com /2003/05/28/0528mennchat_print.html (1645 words)

	Shawn Fanning
		Fanning, all of 19 years old, is here because of Napster, a startup named for a software program he wrote that's giving the music industry the bum's rush.
		Fanning's contribution, conceived while he was a freshman at Boston's Northeastern University, is a free, downloadable program that transforms PCs into servers for exchanging MP3 music files over the Net.
		Fanning is already entangled in a lawsuit brought by recording industry heavyweights, including Universal, Sony, and BMG.
	www.businessweek.com /2000/00_20/b3681054.htm (789 words)

	Meet the Napster - October 2, 2000
		Shawn Fanning was 18 when he wrote the code that changed the world.
		Fanning, whose high school nickname was the Napster (a reference to his perpetually nappy hair), just shrugged.
		Shawn Fanning has become surprisingly thoughtful and well spoken--perhaps because, being at the center of an epochal lawsuit, he has had to.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/time/2000/10/02/napster.html (3875 words)

	AMO.NET America's Multimedia Online (Shawn Fanning, the last CRY!) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The short answer is no, Shawn Fanning and his illegal music trading service hasn't EVER been legal, that is without prior permission to use such works.
		If you're wondering why Shawn Fanning is all of a sudden legal, it's because he had no choice, and because as much as he'd like to convince himself that he did nothing wrong, lawyers representing big artists will start to demand payments and will receive them.
		So while Shawn Fanning is in the UK meeting with, and reaching an agreement with the British trade group Association of Independent Music, or AIM, which claims to represent more than 25 percent of the U.K.’s music market, his troubles still haunt him from the US via the Judicial System.
	amo.net /NT/06-27-01Shawn.html (340 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Napster movie planned
		Shawn Fanning created the service, which allowed users to swap recorded material for free, when he was a 19-year-old student.
		Now he may star in the film version of the story of how someone with no formal computer training who dropped out of college was able to create a service which at its height could boast 70 million users.
		Fanning is also planning to executive produce the soundtrack, she said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/2295321.stm (302 words)

	The Rise And Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Shawn was the broken-home kid obsessed with music and computers who loved to code; his uncle, John, was a hardscrabble small-scale businessman with an eye for the main chance.
		Shawn was a teenage chat-room habitué in thrall of his worldly seeming uncle.
		The Fannings' tragedy, in Menn's telling, is that Shawn, not John, had the Steve Jobs-sized vision.
	www.forbes.com /2003/05/27/cx_pm_0527bookreview.html (759 words)

	Music rebels seek to tame P2P \| Tech News on ZDNet
		At the center of the detente is Napster creator Shawn Fanning, whose new company, Snocap, has spent the last year building technology designed to identify music on file-swapping networks and turn free song trades into purchases.
		Fanning's technology is designed to work behind the scenes of other companies' services, rather than directly replacing either file-swapping networks like Kazaa or today's download stores such as Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store.
		Fanning's technology is just one element in a series of pieces that are rapidly falling into place to allow new kinds of peer-to-peer music distribution.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-1040_22-5453788.html (633 words)

	All the Rave : The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Perhaps Menn's most telling revelations here center around the previously under-reported role of Shawn's uncle John Fanning, the shady, entrepreneurial con-man who claimed to be Napster's co-inventor/co-founder (distinctions that actually belonged to Shawn's teen friends, Jordan Ritter and Sean Parker), cutting himself in for a whopping 70% initial stake in the company.
		The elder Fanning's ability to clutch defeat from the jaws of even the smallest victory is set up as nothing less than Shakespearean parable.
		Napster left a generation of music fans feeling that paying the recording industry close to twenty dollars for a CD was a foolish and unnecessary extravagance, which provoked a still-growing backlash against digital media consumers that might leave them with less control than ever.
	seo-toys.com /books-plain/0609610937.html (2946 words)

	Napster > Shawn Fanning: In The Eye Of The Storm > October 19, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		But to truly gauge the Northeastern University drop-out's impact, you need to observe him among his peers, the millions of students worldwide who've made Napster one of the most feared and loved innovations of the last 50 years.
		Until it does, however, Fanning is likely to remain in they eye of the storm, the hero to students nationwide, the undisputed public enemy No. 1 to music companies.
		This week, Fanning appeared at a field hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
	www.techweb.com /wire/story/TWB20001020S0001 (648 words)

	mtv.com - News - Napster's Shawn Fanning Back With New Music Service
		Napster founder Shawn Fanning is back in the music-downloading game, this time with a legal service that has the blessing of at least some significant members of the music industry.
		According to reports, Fanning's latest software creation recognizes songs on peer-to-peer networks and allows the copyright holders to charge downloaders for the tunes while removing the threat of litigation for consumers.
		Unlike Napster, launched by Fanning in 1999 from his Northeastern University dorm room, Snocap is meant only to help copyright holders manage sales of their songs, and not as a piece of downloadable software to allow users to trade songs.
	www.mtv.com /news/articles/1494457/20041203/index.jhtml?headlines%3Dtrue (631 words)

	Joseph Menn {dot} com
		Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker packed their bags for California in September 1999 because Napster's first equity investor, Yosi Amram of Palo Alto, wanted to keep an eye on the company.
		Fanning was to fly the same day from Boston, but he misplaced his driver's license and couldn't make the flight.
		Fanning almost felt as if he belonged with the others as they drank champagne and munched on scallops wrapped in pancetta.
	www.josephmenn.com /excerpt_la_times.php (3516 words)

	unmediated: Snocap's Shawn Fanning Disputes Contention That People Won't Pay For Content
		In a letter to the editor of the Mercury News, Fanning responds to a recent column by Mike Langberg, who predicted a poor future for download services.
		But thriving and profitable cable networks and satellite radio companies show that fans are willing to pay for better, more comprehensive content.
		Fanning comes closest to being right but either he or a PR person can't help over-focussing on being legal as the reason for downloads.
	www.unmediated.org /archives/2004/12/snocaps_shawn_f.php (889 words)

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