Shawn Fanning

= creator of the original Napster

“I had this idea that there was a lot of material out there sitting on people´s hard drives, (…) and I had to figure out a way to go and get it”

- (Shawn Fanning)

Bio

"He quit his studies to design the original Napster, the peer-to-peer (p2p) filesharing site.

Shawn (26) - born in Brockton, Massachusetts, USA and now residing in San Franciso, California - studied in Boston (just like Gerd Leonhard), but left the local Northeastern University behind to write the code for Napster , which he started together with his friend Sean Parker (now president of Facebook) in 1999. Today, Shawn owns Snocap - a company for licensing and distributing music in the digital market place. In December 2006, Shawn developed a social network for World Of Warcraft players named Rupture." (http://thinnerism.cc/2007/10/28/music20-overview-–-part-2-shawn-fanning-the-original-napster-and-snocap/)