It was quick to gain fame and as the users increased, the company caught up in a legal battle over copyright infringement. It was basically a cataloging system that looked for all the MP3 audio files in your hard drive and allowed them to be shared with anyone else using the software. Napster provided millions of users access to a large amount of music for free and the users could also access each other’s audio files. When he started Napster in 1999, the idea of free music was so overwhelming that almost 80 million users downloaded Napster and broke the law.
Then 19-year old, Shawn revolutionized the World Wide Web, developed one of the first peer-to-peer file sharing platforms, and provoked one of the largest lawsuits in the history of the music industry.
Napster was the brainchild of Shawn Fanning, a computer programmer, entrepreneur, and angel investor.
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