Napster was the best-known of the peer-to-peer music services. Founded by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker in 1999, it became ...

The controversial OG music-sharing platform, founded in 1999 by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker and shut down by court order in 2001 after throwing the music industry into a panic, has been ...

Napster was launched in 1999 by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker and quickly became the first significant peer-to-peer file-sharing application. It shuttered in early 2000s after the record industry ...