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Shawn Fanning Returns With New Music Service
3-Dec-2004
Written by: Unlike the program he launched from his dorm room at Northeastern University in 1999, Snocap is meant to help copyright holders manage sales of their songs, not as software for trading music files.
I suspect the boys in Metallica will be keeping a keen eye on this venture, hopefully sparing it from the pit of litigation.
Photography by: BobbyBlades@aol.com
Not quite as strong (or as controversial) as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shawn Fanning is back -- in the music downloading game, according to MTV News. The 24 year-old Fanning, who got into legal troubles with record companies over his illegal downloading program "Napster" in 1999, has now gotten permission from "Universal" and "Vivendi" to allow their music into the database of his new company, Snocap.
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