Napster RIP: Merges with Rhapsody
Pioneer of P2P dies another death, succumbing again to market forces instead of the long arm of the law.
It's been a little over 12 years since Napster pioneered the ...
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Convicted File-Sharer: DRM-Free Tracks on KaZaA to Blame
Tenenbaum's attorney argues in request for retrial that Joel Tenenbaum and other music listeners could not get “exactly the songs they wanted, in exactly the format they wanted” until the ...
10 Years of DeCSS and Xvid
Many recent articles on file-trading and the P2P community have noted that the Napster phenomenon occurred ten years ago, marking a decade of joy for down-loaders and despair for the ...
The reports of P2P’s death remain greatly exaggerated
It is not often that one gets to see justice, of a sort anyway, happen so quickly. Just Thursday, The Economist magazine, one of the most influential and widely read ...
10th Anniversary of Napster This Month
Some may not know it, but June is an interesting month for file-sharer's. This year, June marks a major milestone for file-sharers. It was June, 1999 ...
Napster Offers Unlimited Streaming, 5 Downloads for $5p/mo
Tries to stay relevant with service that delivers music for the same price as iTune bundled with on-demand music streaming.
Napster, the proverbial godfather of music downloads, and whom, incidentally, ...
Best Buy to Acquire Napster 2.0 for $121 Million
The news may have been missed by some, but there is word that Napster could very likely be sold to Best Buy for $121 Million.
Napster has had quite a run ...
Napster 2.0 Could Be Put on the Auction Block
You'd think that with the passage of the Higher Education Act, which forces colleges and universities in the United States to block P2P and promote authorized ...
Penn St. drops Napster for Ruckus music
Penn State's groundbreaking arrangement with Napster is over.
The university will turn to Ruckus Network Inc. this fall to allow all enrolled students at its 24 campuses to legally listen to ...
Circuit City partners up with Napster to create ‘Circuit City + Napster’
The new digital music subscription service will offer 99-cent song download purchases in addition to Napster's unlimited content streaming service.
Starting April 29, 2007, consumers can sign up for Circuit ...
EMI and Bertelsmann settle Napster lawsuit
EMI on Monday agreed to settle a lawsuit against Bertelsmann related to the German media group's support for Napster, the online file-sharing service that spurred a piracy epidemic ...
Subway Napster for the London Tube: undersound
Undersound is a new project to distribute music around the London Underground trains. Users can upload songs from their collections to centralized distribution points, and download tracks left by other ...
Closed systems leave song buyers out in the cold
The top consumer complaint at online music service
Napster: Songs purchased at Napster won't play on Apple's iPod.
It's not Napster's fault. Apple's (AAPL) hugely successful iPod business is built on a ...
Skype founder: Kazaa, Napster help music
Kazaa,Napster Inc and other creators of file-sharing applications have been good for the music industry, Niklas Zennstrom, founder of the now-defunct Kazaa and CEO of Skype, said Monday.
"Kazaa came five ...
Napster Goes Japanese
Napster launched a new music download service in Japan today as it tries to play catch up with the 800lb iTunes gorilla.
Japan is the second largest music market in ...
Napster says it is for sale or for joint venture
Online music company Napster Inc is for sale. The company said Monday it is considering options of either selling itself or forging alliances in order to set up possible joint ...
Napster giving MP3 players to subscribers in Britain
Napster is aiming to take some customers away from Apple iTunes by launching a new scheme under which they would be giving away an MP3 player worth about £30 to ...
Bertelsmann settles Napster case with Vivendi
German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG said on Wednesday it had settled litigation related to file-sharing service Napster.
As part of the deal, Vivendi's Universal Music will receive $60 million to help ...
LimeWire and the Napster Curse
Shawn Fanning’s 1999 release of Napster forever associated peer-to-peer technology with music piracy, and we all bear the burden of that curse today. Why do I call it a ...
Napster Boosts Revenues, Issues Surround Profits, Subscribers
Napster recently issued its fiscal first quarter earnings scorecard, which featured record revenues, lowered cash burn, and continued profit and subscriber concerns. Revenues topped $28.1 million, a 34 percent increase ...
