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Shawn Fanning's New Venture

Posted by timothy on from the first-mover-advantage dept.

prostoalex writes "We've read about Justin Frankel, but what are the other heroes of the MP3 revolution up to? News.com.com.com tells the story of Shawn Fanning's new company. SnoCap (which changed its name from Open Copyright Database) is currently developing file-sharing mechanisms that would allow the music industry to earn money."

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  1. Re:Please don't compare the two. by Jordy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    For the 600th time, the client wasn't written in VB. It was written in C++ (really C with classes) using win32 calls.

    Where in heck did this written in VB thing start?

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