Shawn Fanning Interview

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."

Comments

Re:If there is anything to be learned from napster

[Usquebaugh]

Sealand is a joke, _7_ mile offshore is well within the bounds of UK law. The telling statement is 'self proclaimed' whch means squat I can proclaim my self king of America, it don't matter damn until the law wants to dispute my claim.

The promise of data freedom is a joke, Sealand is an old WWII gunnery fort, designed to defend the Thames I think, where do you think the data link comes a shore? Kent or Essex?

The best place to put your data if you want immunity from prosecution would be the servers of the NSA. National security concerns would stop any court case dead. Of course you could develop a sudden fatal heart condition when they find out.

Re:Lets be honest here

[garcia]

In a recent Maxim test they actually did this to test the speed at which the P2P programs would work best.

iMesh won w/19 mins for the Weezer album.

Kazaa was rated with two stars.

Limewire was rated the best and took 27 mins to download the album.

check it out here

Re:The RIAA and the Onion

[Soko]

Hey, don't laugh.

My local radio station got a hold of the "new" Nirvana song on the 'net and were playing it on air. They were served a "cease and desist" letter from Universal Music, which they read on the air to explain why they wouldn't play it any more until Universal said it would be OK to do so. Seems to me that radio and the RIAA have a love/hate relationship.

Actually, the station is rather cool with the sharing thing as can be seen by this page.

Soko