Shawn Fanning Quotes

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

  Shawn Fanning

  Business, Independent, Artist

  "Napster brings indie labels on board" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2001.

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

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Computer, Antisocial

  "The Music Swapper: Shawn Fanning". From Interview with Jeff Howe, www.wired.com. August 01, 2005.

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• 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 into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one.

  Shawn Fanning

  Media, Space, People

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• Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.

  Shawn Fanning

  Design, Today, Clients

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• 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 to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Ideas, Issues

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, March 3, 2000.

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• Napster works because people who love music share and participate.

  Shawn Fanning

  People, Napster, Music Love

  "Federal Court Tells Napster to Stop Trading Copyrighted Material". "CNN Today", www.cnn.com. February 12, 2001.

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• 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 regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.

  Shawn Fanning

  Regret, School, Ideas

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• 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 of people that were interested in using the software.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• 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 does that happen to a programmer?

  Shawn Fanning

  Successful, Musician, Doe

  "The Music Swapper: Shawn Fanning". From Interview with Jeff Howe, www.wired.com. August 01, 2005.

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• 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 that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Mp3, Media

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• 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 content.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Media, Brilliant

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• I think in terms of the work were doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Term

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• 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 overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

  Shawn Fanning

  Receiving, Beta, Stage

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 03, 2000.

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