Shawn Fanning was only 18 when he developed the code that created Napster, a file-sharing program that allows people to swap songs with each other through the Internet. Fanning, now 19, worked night and day, day and night, without coming up for air, for fear that someone else would beat him to creating a program as extraordinary as Napster, and all of his hard work would be for nothing. Since it's creation in early 1999, the web has spawned numerous copies of Napster, such as Gnutella, but nothing compares to the original. However, Napster's popularity isn't solely based on the program itself: it is challenging the law. Fanning and his company are being sued by record labels and artists, prominently Metallica, for copyright infringement and other such violations. While the future of Fanning's creation is currenlty unknown, it has made an impact that will last forever--not just on the Internet, but on law as we know it.