Shawn Fanning

- Born: November 22, 1980 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Fanni...
- Birth place: Brockton, Massachusetts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Fanni...

Shawn Fanning was founder of Napster, the popular file-sharing service that was shutdown in 2002 after legal battles with the music industry. He went on to start two other companies, SNOCAP and Rupture. Rupture was purchased by software company Electronic Arts in 2008.
Life and Career

Shawn Fanning is a self-taught software developer. He dropped out from Northeastern University as a freshman in 1999 where he was studying Computer Science to focus full-time on building Napster.
Fanning grew up on Cape Cod and graduated from Harwich High School in 1998.

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  Shawn Fanning created Napster in 1998 while attending Northeastern University. Fanning has since founded SNOCAP, a B2B Music Distributor, in
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- Shawn Fanning Finally Gets A Real Payday: Electronic Arts Buys ...
  
  [Update 8/4/08: The acquisition price subsequently reported by EA is $15 million, not $30 million. But that amount does not include any additional ...
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- Shawn Fanning sells third brainchild to EA | Technology | Los ...
  
  ( OOPS: This post previously said TechCrunch reported the deal two weeks ago. It was actually almost a month ago.) Shawn Fanning, best known as the founder of pioneering file-shari...
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- MySpace Deal With Imeem Leaves Artists In The Cold
  
  Imeem owned the intellectual property of Snocap, a streaming music storefront created by Napster creator Shawn Fanning. It allowed artists to sell their ... (December 14, 2009)
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- Dec. 7, 1999: RIAA Sues Napster
  
  Napster founder Shawn Fanning won rock-star celebrity with the service. But music-industry heads were spinning. So, the RIAA sued Napster and all of its ... (December 06, 2009)
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- MySpace/Imeem Deal Leaves Thousands of Artists Unpaid
  
  Napster creator Shawn Fanning co-founded Snocap in 2002 to let artists sell their music through an embeddable storefront widget. At one point, the service ... (December 11, 2009)
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- Big Shots Of The 1990s: Where They Are Now
  
  At an age when most people are trying to find someone to buy them beer, 19-year-old Shawn Fanning was on his way to nearly dismantling the recorded music ... (December 09, 2009)
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- MySpace/Imeem deal: artists don't get paid
  
  that was all – Snocap and Shawn Fanning, January 25, 2004 Wired – MySpace/Imeem Deal Leaves Thousands of Artists Unpaid, December 11, 2009 p2pnet – MySpace, on the prowl for iMeem, November 17, 2009 ... (December 14, 2009)
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- en'AWE Magazine » Blog Archive » 10 Things That Were Hot Then Not ...
  
  Created by 19-year-old Shawn Fanning, the program ignited a legal brouhaha with the recording industry. By the time Napster transformed into a subscription service, listeners had moved on to iTunes. Today, Napster is owned by Best Bu... (December 17, 2009)
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  Hosted by Jennifer Tilly, the event attracted actors Dean Cain, Shannon Elizabeth, Glenn Morshower and TV personality Montel Williams, as well as Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian, Napster creator Shawn Fanning and poker professionals Jam... (December 16, 2009)
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- TIME cover 10-02-2000 w. Shawn Fanning, founder of the internet...
  
  Shawn Fanning, founder of the internet music sharing technology called Napster; inset of Wall Street computer scammer, 15 year old Jonathan Lebed by Noah Addis/Star Ledger. Google + LIFE. (November 16, 2009)
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Shawn Fanning Products and Merchandise
- Internet True History by John Heilemann ~ Browser Wars / Search / Bubble / People Power (2008, 2 DVD Set, 4 Documentaries, 3 hrs) - $99.85
  
  Amazon.com: Internet True History by John Heilemann ~ Browser Wars / Search / Bubble / People Power (2008, 2 DVD Set, 4 Documentaries, 3 hrs): Marc Andreessen, Bill Gates, Sergey B...
  
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  I am and thanks : ) From my first viewing of the fourth Doc on the local PBS channel so many years ago to following the new Doc adventures now, I love it all ;... read more
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- "Well your thing is legal, and trust me, legal is cooler." -Shawn Fanning, creator of Napster http://bit.ly/5AmgRq
- Imagina como séria a rede de downloads de música hoje em dia se Shawn Fanning não tivesse nascido.
- How do you screw up Snocap? Seriously, how? I wouldn't trust Shawn Fanning to run a garbage dump.
- Great 5 part article on Globe and Mail about how Napster changed the world. Thanks Shawn Fanning http://ow.ly/Luae
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