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It’s The 20th Anniversary Of Napster

20 years ago this week, Napster was born in Sean Fanning's Northeastern University dorm room. Whatever side of the debate you're on, one can't deny that Napster changed the music. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2019/06/its-the-20th-anniversary-of-napster.html]

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image from www.hypebot.com20 years ago this week, Napster was born in Sean Fanning's Northeastern University dorm room. Whatever side of the debate you're on, one can't deny that Napster changed the music industry forever. Among so many other things, Napster forced record labels to un-bundle the album in iTunes, which fittingly is set to be put out to pasture today by Apple."It was something that came to me as a result of seeing an sort of an unmet need and the passion people had for being able to find all this music, particularly a lot of the obscure stuff which wouldn't be something you go to a record store and purchase. So if felt like a problem worth solving.""It is really remarkable to think about how quickly it grew. It created a level of connectedness and access that really didn't exist at the time." – Sean Fanning to the San Francisco ChronicleRad and listen to their interview here.

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