Napster
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Napster became a symbol of the highly significant battle over the concept of intellectual property rights as it applies to the Internet.
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“I say: You have a Super Bowl ad; this is crazy. At some point, they have to ask themselves: Do they want to be Napster or Spotify?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
A lot of people around my age might read those words and be instantly thrown back to the days of dial-up internet, MSN Messenger and Napster.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
Enshittification has been something I’ve been warning people about since the Napster wars.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2025
Napster, the former music pirating site and bane of major labels at the turn of the millennium, is today a minor player compared to Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025
There was indeed evidence that Napster knew how its system was being used—an embarrassing amount of it, including early memos saying that users will want anonymity because they are trading in "pirated music."
From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle
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