Napster

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1. A Web site that facilitated the free exchange of digital music through the Internet.

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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.

Example Sentences

When Napster and YouTube took college campuses and then the world by storm, Hollywood freaked out about piracy.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

In the 2000s, the song spread like wildfire on file-sharing sites like Napster and Kazaa but, until now, The Stones had refused to clear it for commercial release.

From BBC

Enshittification has been something I’ve been warning people about since the Napster wars.

From Slate

The music-streaming service Napster has sold for $207 million to the tech firm Infinite Reality.

From Los Angeles Times