--- title: "1 Broadband Quotes By Shawn Fanning" description: "1 Broadband quotes by Shawn Fanning. Plus more from Shawn Fanning and more Broadband sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fc/shawn-fanning-26237_application_he-said-this-has-the-potential-to-be-the_736966.png" --- > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawn-fanning/he-said-this-has-the-potential-to-be-the-first-broadband-killer/) [Shawn Fanning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shawn-fanning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fc/shawn-fanning-26237_application_he-said-this-has-the-potential-to-be-the_736966.png) ## Other authors on Broadband - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-tae-yoo-8433.jpg) Tae Yoo 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/broadband/tae-yoo/) - [Julius Genachowski 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/broadband/julius-genachowski/) - [Ajit Pai 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/broadband/ajit-pai/) - [Vint Cerf 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/broadband/vint-cerf/) ## More by Shawn Fanning > [I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawn-fanning/i-think-the-most-difficult-thing-had-been-scaling-the-infrastructure/) [Shawn Fanning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shawn-fanning/) > [Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawn-fanning/independent-artists-and-labels-have-always-been-the-trend-setters-in/) [Shawn Fanning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shawn-fanning/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawn-fanning/if-you-re-a-musician-or-actor-you-know-that-if-you-re-successful-some/) [Shawn Fanning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shawn-fanning/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawn-fanning/i-think-it-s-pretty-obvious-to-most-people-that-napster-is-not-media/) [Shawn Fanning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shawn-fanning/) > [It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawn-fanning/it-was-very-early-and-we-were-still-like-beta-or-alpha-stage-and-so/) [Shawn Fanning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shawn-fanning/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawn-fanning/nobody-has-ever-built-a-reliable-peer-to-peer-service-where-people/) [Shawn Fanning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shawn-fanning/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawn-fanning/he-said-this-has-the-potential-to-be-the-first-broadband-killer/) [Shawn Fanning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shawn-fanning/) > [There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawn-fanning/there-really-was-nothing-like-it-at-the-time-we-had-good-ideas-for/) [Shawn Fanning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shawn-fanning/) > [If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawn-fanning/if-you-think-about-computer-programming-it-s-as-antisocial-as-it-gets/) [Shawn Fanning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shawn-fanning/) > [Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawn-fanning/independent-artists-and-labels-have-always-been-the-trendsetters-in/) [Shawn Fanning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shawn-fanning/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawn-fanning/but-i-just-really-think-there-is-a-natural-extension-into-other-types/) [Shawn Fanning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shawn-fanning/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawn-fanning/it-s-been-all-over-the-press-and-schools-are-deciding-to-shut-it-down/) [Shawn Fanning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shawn-fanning/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawn-fanning/well-user-feedback-was-excellent-even-when-the-software-didn-t-work/) [Shawn Fanning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shawn-fanning/) > [I think in terms of the work were doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawn-fanning/i-think-in-terms-of-the-work-were-doing-now-a-lot-of-the-ui-cleanup-i/) [Shawn Fanning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shawn-fanning/) > [I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawn-fanning/i-think-then-when-we-started-receiving-the-first-of-the-user-feedback/) [Shawn Fanning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shawn-fanning/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/broadband/shawn-fanning/#itemlist", "name": "1 Broadband Quotes By Shawn Fanning", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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. 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