Shawn Fanning Biography

Shawn Fanning is an American computer programmer serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He developed Napster one of the first popular peer-to-peer (P2P") file sharing platforms in 1999. The popularity of Napster was widespread and Fanning was featured on the cover of Time magazine. The site in its initial free P2P incarnation was shut down in 2001 after the company's unsuccessful appeal of court orders arising from its encouraging the illegal sharing of copyrighted material. A paid subscription version of the site followed and was purchased by Rhapsody in2011. Following his involvement with Napster he joined and invested in a number of early-stage technology startup companies.

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