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. — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business. — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
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… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets. — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business. — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
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… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
