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Napster founder Shawn Fanning, 20, attends a press conference in San Francisco February 12, 2001, a short time after a ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals which said that Napster,
HISTORY - In 1999, an 18-year-old college dropout named Shawn Fanning made history and changed the music industry forever with his file-sharing program called Napster. His idea was simple: a program that
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