Napster works because people who love music share and participate. Shawn Fanning More Quotes by Shawn Fanning More Quotes From Shawn Fanning Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business. Shawn Fanning independent artist business 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 If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets. Shawn Fanning antisocial computer thinking 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 ideas school Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design. Shawn Fanning design clients today 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 issues ideas thinking 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 numbers people thinking 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 musician successful doe I think in terms of the work were doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier. Shawn Fanning term thinking 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 mp3 media thinking 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 brilliant media thinking 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 beta receiving stage Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas. Shawn Fanning feedback work people ideas I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly. Shawn Fanning product pretty trying book I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback. Shawn Fanning friend think giving people He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue. Shawn Fanning potential become truth said It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools. Shawn Fanning saying down something start So the bandwidth issue is definitely a big concern of ours. Shawn Fanning issue definitely big concern Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us... They still believe in that vision. Shawn Fanning us first vision believe
