Announcement Quote 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…

— Shawn Fanning

Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Shawn Fanning

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

— Shawn Fanning

Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.

— 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…

— 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…

— Shawn Fanning