Chapter 12. The Filesharing Networks
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Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
It all began in 1999, when an 18-year-old college dropout named Shawn Fanning got fed up with trying to find and download music files off the Internet. So he wrote a program that could search for and share music files and exchange instant messages with other people on the Internet. When Fanning released his creation, called Napster, little did he know that he would wind up changing the world.
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A Short History of Internet FileSharing
Fanning didn’t invent Internet filesharing ...
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