Shawn Fanning

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• If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets. Antisocial
• Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business. Artist
• I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number… Been
• That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would… Brilliant
• 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 retrieving… Brilliant
• There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution… Brilliant
• 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 often… Actor
• 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 something… Allows
• Napster works because people who love music share and participate. Love
• 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 it… Access
• Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design. Client
• It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became… Alpha
• I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and… Actually Purchase
• I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but… Feedback
• So the bandwidth issue is definitely a big concern of ours. Bandwidth
• Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business. Artists
• Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us... They still believe in that vision. Believe
• 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… Application
• I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier. Cleanup
• 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 potential… All
• 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… All

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