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. — 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
Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business. — Shawn Fanning Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business. — Shawn Fanning Copy Share
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
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
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… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share
I think in terms of the work were doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier. — Shawn Fanning Copy Share
I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it,… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share
