Napster creator touts legal file sharing

09:06 - Friday 3 December 2004 by Wolfgang Gruener
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: napster, creator, touts, legal, file, sharing Category : Miscellaneous

Shawn Fanning’s Napster software enabled countless music fans to swap songs on the Internet for free, turning him into the recording industry’s enemy No. 1 in the process.

Five years later, now heading San Francisco-based Snocap, Fanning is touting a new technology designed to help the music companies who once sued him into submission cash in on file-sharing between computer users, also known as peer-to-peer.

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