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Nobody Has Ever Built A Reliable Peer-to-peer Service, Where People Can Really Access All The Music They Want In One Location,... Once I Got It Into My Head, I Couldn't Imagine The Media Space Without One.

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Nobody Has Ever Built A Reliable Peer-to-peer

Shawn Fanning

Nobody Has Ever Built A Reliable Peer-to-peer Service, Where People Can Really Access All The Music They Want In One Location,... Once I Got It Into My Head, I Couldn't Imagine The Media Space Without One.

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