COMPANY

Peer-to-peer file sharing service, popularly used for exchanging music. 26M users at its peak. Litigated into obscurity by an indignant music industry, spawning many clones.

Industry:
Software

Corporate headquarters:
Boston, MA

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Shawn Fanning	Computer Programmer	22-Nov-1980		Founded the Napster mp3 free-for-all
Sean Parker	Business	3-Dec-1979		Napster, Facebook millionaire

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