38 Quotes by Shawn Fanning

It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.

Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.

I was at Northeastern University playing with the idea and getting feedback from my roommates, and then started drafting a really basic design idea.

I am grateful they are now showing that leadership when it comes to using technology to make music more accessible.

Napster works because people who love music share and participate. Along the way, many people said it would never work. We've heard that we couldn't survive before -- when we had 700,000 members, and when we had 17 million members. Today we have more than 50 million members, and we'll all find a way to keep this community growing.

Napster for the Mac provides the total Napster experience wrapped in a Mac-friendly user interface,

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.

We're close to moving into a new phase of Napster and this agreement is an important step along the way.

Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us. They still believe in that vision.