When Napster m ade its d ebut in June 1999, few knew its potential impact. The software would let you share music files online for free, but at the time consumers were still buying hundreds of ...

Remember Napster, the online network that let you download music tracks for free? All it did was totally change the entertainment industry. Still, you may not recall its influence because the ...

Despite its name remaining one of the most loaded terms in Internet history, Napster’s mission to go straight still chugs along, and the now-music streaming service’s latest plays are ...

Director Alex Winter explores how Napster brought the music industry to its knees 13 years ago, and where all of the players are now. Thanks to VH1, who funded a big portion of Winter’s vision ...

Parker became a global business presence after the launch of Napster, the site that revolutionized the music industry. From this point forward, his career has been filled with successes that ...

There’s no need to re-hash it again. But here’s one we could never have seen coming: due to the rise of streaming services and a series of corporate takeovers and name changes, Metallica are poised to ...

Additionally, the report allows the reader to benchmark Napster users in the United Kingdom (''brand users'') against UK digital music buyers in general (''category users''), and the overall UK ...

when it shifted the world of digital music from Napster, a standalone app with questionable regulatory standing, to iTunes, an experience integrated into existing consumer applications.

Originally for music files, and subsequently for videos, this type of sharing was popularized by the famous Napster service as well as Gnutella, Grokster, KaZaA and others. Users upload ...

Ulrich was one of the key figures in the music industry's fight against the peer-to-peer file-sharing platform Napster. Metallica went after individual downloaders and the site itself, sparking ...