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The Testimony Of Napster Chief Exec Hank Barry
News Shawn Fanning began a revolution that is returning the Internet to its roots. I would like to recognise Shawn Fanning, the inventor of Napster, who is sitting behind me. (The following is the full testimony of Napster chief executive Hank Barry...
[July 12, 2000, 9:56]
Napster Founder Unveils New P2P Venture
News With $10m in venture funding and the backing of at least one major record label, Napster founder Shawn Fanning will officially unveil his new peer-to-peer music company on Monday. After more than a year of silence, Fanning himself is now outlining...
[December 3, 2004, 8:25]
Napster Founder Scales New Peaks
News Far from his anarchic Napster days, file-swapping pioneer Shawn Fanning and several of his old colleagues are quietly working on a new venture called Snocap that is aimed at turning peer-to-peer networks into dollars for record companies.
[January 27, 2004, 10:55]
Naspter Is Back In Business
News Napster chief executive Konrad Hilbers and Shawn Fanning, Napster's creator, will remain with the company. Fanning at that time also decided to leave the company, sources said. German media conglomerate Bertelsmann has agreed to acquire Napster in...
[May 20, 2002, 9:14]
MTV To Make Napster - The Movie
News Napster founder Shawn Fanning is taking his story to the small screen. MTV said it has struck a deal with the peer-to-peer wunderkind for the rights to Fanning's life story. A spokeswoman for MTV said the movie would focus on Fanning's personal...
[October 4, 2002, 8:44]
Napster Signs Euro Indie Labels
News At a press conference in London attended by Napster's creator Shawn Fanning, Napster executives announced that music from independent labels would be included on its forthcoming subscription-based service, which is due to go live later this summer.
[June 26, 2001, 13:27]
A Year Ago: Start-up Plays Dangerous Game With Music Biz
News It has been hugely successful," said Shawn Fanning, chief executive of the company. A legal tightrope Fanning stressed that he is intent on playing within the law. There is no copyrighted music that crosses the Napster network," said Fanning.
[August 17, 2000, 7:00]
Start-up Plays Dangerous Game With Music Biz
News It has been hugely successful," said Shawn Fanning, chief executive of the company. A legal tightrope Fanning stressed that he is intent on playing within the law. There is no copyrighted music that crosses the Napster network," said Fanning.
[August 17, 1999, 13:32]
Bertelsmann Plans Napster Takeover
News We plan to buy out the former owners, most of all venture-capitalist Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and some private investors like John Fanning, who is the uncle of the founder Shawn Fanning," said Middelhoff.
[April 5, 2002, 17:35]
Napster Chief Executive Quits
News Sources close to the company also said that Shawn Fanning, who created the Napster software at age 19, also resigned Tuesday. Following in Hilbers' and Fanning's wake were several other senior executives, including general counsel Jonathan Schwartz.
[May 15, 2002, 8:52]
Metallica Drummer: Stop Ripping Us Off!
News In a separate statement, Napster's 19-year-old founder Shawn Fanning said, "I'm a huge Metallica fan and therefore really sorry that they're going in this direction. Fanning, Napster's founder, said he'd like the chance to explain to the band why...
[May 4, 2000, 8:50]
Broadband Killer Apps Will Be Created At Home
News I think that people like Shawn Fanning are going create it, working in their bedrooms," he said. Peer-to-peer file swapping, brought to public attention by services such as Fanning's Napster, is tipped to benefit from the high-speed of broadband.
[December 10, 2001, 14:10]
Judge: Napster Efforts 'disgraceful'
News In a separate set of lawsuits, Patel also declined Tuesday to approve claims that could lead to legal action against individuals including Napster chief executive Hank Barry; John Fanning, uncle of Napster creator Shawn Fanning and co-founder of...
[April 11, 2001, 13:07]
Legal Peer-to-peer Services: Gimmick Or Genius?
News Shawn Fanning is back. This time around, Fanning hopes he can help rehabilitate file-swapping technology as a way to sell music, not steal it. But Fanning's celebrity -- which included an appearance on the cover of Time magazine -- got short...
[December 7, 2004, 13:45]
Will Rebels Shake The Web In 2001?
News The file-swapping application developed by Shawn Fanning changed the way music is distributed, and the second generation of peer-to-peer programs may similarly change the way people search the Web. Napster is now a veritable grandfather by Internet...
[January 2, 2001, 7:16]
Napster, Gnutella... And Josef Stalin?
News But while vilifying them as "immoral and illegal", Parsons also conceded that the revolution started by Shawn Fanning and his Napster program badly scooped the traditional recording industry to a huge market potential unprecedented since songs...
[July 25, 2000, 9:22]
Napster Appoints New CEO
News Napster and its founder Shawn Fanning created a cultural paradigm shift, using the Internet to bring together through file sharing the largest group of music fans ever assembled," Hilbers said in a statement.
[July 24, 2001, 15:08]
Jane Wakefield: Thankyou For The Music...NOT!
News College dropout Shawn Fanning has come up with a software system that lets surfers swap MP3 files -- basically creating a huge online library of tunes (including, I am sure, bucketfuls of Black Lace and Survivor).
[May 8, 2000, 11:18]
Napster? Never Heard Of It Mate
News So threatening is this creation of 19-year-old Shawn Fanning, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is suing him and his company in what is sure to be an interesting court battle. The controversial music format MP3 may be one of the...
[March 23, 2000, 12:54]
Napster Buyout Blocked
News A few employees are staying on to take the company through bankruptcy, but most key individuals -- including company founder Shawn Fanning -- will be gone. A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the $9m (£5.8m) sale of Napster to German media giant...
[September 4, 2002, 7:36]
