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'…

- Shawn Fanning

Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.

- Shawn Fanning

Napster works because people who love music share and participate.

- Shawn Fanning

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 f…

- Shawn Fanning

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…

- Shawn Fanning

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 …

- Shawn Fanning

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 all…

- Shawn Fanning

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 …

- Shawn Fanning

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 reli…

- Shawn Fanning