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Shawn Fanning

"Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design."

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"Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design."

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"I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback."
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"I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files."
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"That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it."
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"So the bandwidth issue is definitely a big concern of ours."
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"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."
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"If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?"
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"I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier."
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"He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue."
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"But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content."
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"There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines."
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