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Fanning only dimly recalls that period in mid-1999, when he wrote the source code for the music file-sharing program called Napster. He can't remember specific months, weeks or days. He was just hunched over his Dell notebook, writing the software and crashing on his uncle's sofa or the floor. Then he'd shake off fatigue, scarf a bowl of cereal and sit back down. He worked feverishly because he was sure someone else had the same idea, that any day now some software company or media conglomerate would be unveiling a version of the same application...
Love it or hate it, that's what Napster has done: changed the world. It has forced record companies to rethink their business models and record-company lawyers and recording artists to defend their intellectual property. It has forced purveyors of "content," like Time Warner, parent company of TIME, to wonder what content will even be in the near future. Napster and Fanning have come to personify the bloody intersection where commerce, culture and the First Amendment are colliding. On behalf of five media companies, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has sued Napster, claiming the website and Fanning...
...think it would be very hard for any student to continue to be educated here without network access, so I think this is the point of maximum vulnerability students face in using Napster to download copyrighted materials illegally," Lewis wrote...
...obviously disappointed Harvard didn't follow the pattern set by 40 percent of top universities that all banned it," King said. "There's no question that every university understands that Napster's being used to download copyrighted material...
...said Metallica and Dr. Dre will continue a dialog with Harvard and other schools about Napster...