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 allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.
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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 reliability issues with existing search engines.Shawn Fanning
Napster works because people who love music share and participate.
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So the bandwidth issue is definitely a big concern of ours.
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Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.
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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 my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one.
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I wasn't really sure that my implementation of it would be what really took off, but fortunately I was able to get a prototype done.
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