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BirthplaceBrockton, MA
Birthdate11/20/80

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Shawn Fanning

Shawn Fanning created Napster in 1998 while attending Northeastern University. Fanning has since founded SNOCAP, a B2B Music Distributor, in 2003, and Rupture, an MMORPG social network in 2006, which was subsequently sold to Electronic Arts.

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