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March 03, 2005

Snocap and the return of Shawn Fanning

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Posted by Dominic Basulto

NY1's Adam Balkin explains that Napster's Shawn Fanning, once the "most hated man within the music industry establishment," is back with a legal peer-to-peer file-sharing system that's already a a big hit at the New York Digital Music Forum.

Fanning's new company, Snocap, is attempting to win over former detractors of Napster: "What we're trying to do is enable that vision…and enable that excitement and selection that Napster brought to the world, but do it in a place where people don't have to worry about getting sued; where they can get access to music and know when they download a track they know that it will bet the track they believe it was..."

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