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Napster founder Shawn Fanning (L), 20, walks with attorney David Boise as the two of them leave the U.S. Federal Courthouse in San Francisco March 2, 2001, following a hearing in front
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Napster founder Shawn Fanning, 20, attends a press conference in San Francisco February 12, 2001, a short time after a ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals which said that Napster,
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