Napster “mainstreamed an underground hobby,” Joseph Menn, author of "All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster," told The Los Angeles Times in May 2024. "No one is going to go ...

Downloaded follows the rise and fall of Fanning and Napster co-founder Sean Parker amid the music industry’s unsurprising refusal to work with the company and the inevitable lawsuits.

Much to the chagrin of many a music executive, Shawn Fanning created Napster and caused the music industry to drastically change how it operates. Anonymous, a loosely-associated group of ...

IN 1999 an 18-year-old called Shawn Fanning changed the music industry for ever. He developed a service, Napster, that allowed individuals to swap music files with one another, instead of buying ...