John, Founding Chairman and CEO of Napster, has been a pioneer in Internet Technologies for over 15 years. In addition to his work with Napster on the distributed aggregation of content, he has introduced such net-related innovations as client-server game play, audio chat, and auto-upgrading/authentication. Since 1994, he has founded numerous successful Internet ventures, including Napster, NetGames, NetMovies, and NetCapital. John attended Boston College, and has a background in Finance from his work at Fidelity Investments in Boston, MA.

Blog Entries by John Fanning

All Sound Recordings Should be Free

Posted February 12, 2007 | 10:58 AM (EST)


Steve Jobs is right: music should be free. All sound recordings should be free. When the greatest American heroes, the first Americans, gave up their homes and their lives to make our world a better place, they left behind a powerful and more complete message than the one recently...

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