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Look at this person. He seems like an average teenager, possibly doing homework on his laptop. Maybe just simply searching the web? Well, what if I told you that he?s not doing homework, because he dropped out of college just recently. What if I told you that he is writing code? Code for what you might ask? This man?s name is Shawn Fanning, and he is writing code for a new program called Napster. ?Napster? is a nickname of his representing his nappy hair under his baseball hat, hair that goes without sleep for days. He doesn?t sleep because he loves the computer and has an excellent, revolutionary idea to possibly change the music industry forever! Today, I am going to inform you about Napster. More specifically, it?s early goals and success, where it is at now, legally and in size, and finally, what the future holds for Napster. Napster is now the world?s largest file sharing community. It employs exactly 50 workers. The Napster software became incorporated in May of 1999. It was then when Shawn produced its first version of the software. That is, a 2.0 beta version, with chat features, a music player, and the allowance of users to share their mp3 libraries. MP3 is an audio format that allows users to compress and