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Shawn Fanning Interview

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-wearing-his-hats dept.

peter303 writes "The Wall Street Journal (via MSNBC) interviewed Shawn Fanning, the founder of Napster. Shawn talks about the end of Napster and his personal plans."

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  1. Re:If there is anything to be learned from napster by JeanMarieLepen · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean Texas?

  2. Re:Well... by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 5, Funny

    But, far more importantly, mad propz to the WSJ for knowing the difference between "less" and "fewer".

    The "use 'fewer' for counting, 'less' for measurements" rule is really pretty obscure and useless. Only the truly pedantic care about that rule. On the other hand...

    theres no other explanation for that, right?

    The apostrophe rule for contractions IS an important, useful rule.

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    Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
  3. MSNBC Front Page by dildatron · · Score: 3, Funny

    I like how MSNBC had the story title on their tech front page:

    "Napster Boy, Interrupted"

    Man that would piss me off if I was him and people are still calling me "Napster Boy".

    ("Hey, Napster Boy, why don't you go download me some mp3's?! Ha ha ha ha! Did you hear that, fellas? I just called Fanny Napster boy! ha ha ha!")

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    If you had nuts on your chin, would they be chin nuts?
    1. Re:MSNBC Front Page by chaidawg · · Score: 3, Funny

      Actually, calling him Napster boy is a bit of a runaround, but accurate. The name Napster came from his nickname in highschool- Nappy. So Napster boy is just a nickname of a name based on a nickname.

  4. What a lame interview by WSJ. by budalite · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gee, after the WSJ learned that the dude didn't make the millions they thought he did, the interview kinda petered out, didn't it? Like "Move along. Nothing to see here!" being called out in the middle of a circus.

    Bhudda-lite
    (Whatever)

  5. Re:Well... by Dolly_Llama · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are we not missing the irony of nitpicking apostrophes and less / fewer in a sentence that contains the phrase "mad propz" ??

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    Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan

  6. Whither Lars? by KelsoLundeen · · Score: 3, Funny
    Whither Lars? That's what I'd like to know. Whatever the fuck happened to Metallica and Lars the Drummer?


    Metallica jumped the shark with Napster, no doubt about it.

  7. The RIAA and the Onion by Jasn · · Score: 3, Funny

    Couldn't really let this topic pass without linking to the story:
    RIAA Sues Radio Stations For Giving Away Free Music.

  8. Re:Well... by TheTomcat · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are we not missing the irony of nitpicking apostrophes and less / fewer in a sentence that contains the phrase "mad propz" ??

    No kidding. EVERYONE knows that "mad" has is spelled "madd" in this context.

    "pr0pz" is an accepted alternate spelling to "propz", as well.

    S