All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster
Joseph Menn, "All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster"
English | ISBN: 0609610937 | 2003 | 368 pages | AZW3 | 1428 KB
English | ISBN: 0609610937 | 2003 | 368 pages | AZW3 | 1428 KB
At age seventeen, Shawn Fanning designed a computer program that transformed the Internet into an unlimited library of free music. Tens of millions of young people quickly signed on, Time magazine put Fanning on its cover, and his company, Napster, became a household name. It did not take long for the music industry to declare war, one that has now engulfed the biggest entertainment and technology companies on the planet.
For All the Rave, top cyberculture journalist Joseph Menn gained unprecedented access to Fanning, other key Napster and music executives, reams of internal e-mails, unpublished court records, and other resources. The result is the definitive account of the Napster saga, for the first time revealing secret take-over and settlement talks, the unseen role of Shawn’s uncle in controlling Napster, and hidden agendas and infighting from Napster’s trenches to the top ranks of the German media giant Bertelsmann.
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