Napster Founder Develops WoW Social Network

Shaun Fanning aims Rupture at Warcraft, other MMOs.

By Mark Whiting, 12/04/2006 Remember Shawn Fanning, the guy who invented Napster? Well, he's been playing a lot of World of Warcraft lately, and he's not too happy with the array of player communication tools currently available. So, he's done what any self-respecting world-famous codeslinger and entrepreneur ought to do: make his own. The software in question will be known as Rupture and aims to become something akin to the MySpace of MMORPGS.