I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users… — Shawn Fanning Difficult Copy Share Image
Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business. — Shawn Fanning Always 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.… — Shawn Fanning Actors 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… — Shawn Fanning Audio 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.… — Shawn Fanning Alphas 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… — Shawn Fanning Access 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… — Shawn Fanning Application 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… — Shawn Fanning Brilliant Copy Share Image
If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets. — Shawn Fanning Antisocial Copy Share Image
Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business. — Shawn Fanning Art 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… — Shawn Fanning Brilliant 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… — Shawn Fanning Announcement Copy Share Image
Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and… — Shawn Fanning Avid Copy Share Image
I think in terms of the work were doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier. — Shawn Fanning Term Copy Share Image
I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told… — Shawn Fanning About Copy Share Image
That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I… — Shawn Fanning Brilliant Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design. — Shawn Fanning Clients Copy Share Image
Napster works because people who love music share and participate. — Shawn Fanning Music Copy Share Image
Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us... They still believe in that vision. — Shawn Fanning Believe Copy Share Image
I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier. — Shawn Fanning Doing Copy Share Image
I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn… — Shawn Fanning Actually Copy Share Image
