Napster

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.

I was the kid making a tidy profit burning CDs for all my friends at two bucks a pop back during the Napster heyday in 2000.
Death of the Author by Viral Infection: In Defense of Taylor Swift, Digital Doomsayer|Arthur Chu|December 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But 15 years after Napster, we are still in the Dark Ages of online music.
25 Things I Want from an Online Music Service (and Almost Never Get)|Ted Gioia|June 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To the musicians, the Napster co-founders were outright thieves, providing an avenue to steal music without paying a dime for it.
15 Years After Napster: How the Music Service Changed the Industry|Alex Suskind|June 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
So when I first heard about Napster, I thought it was something for computer nerds.
15 Years After Napster: How the Music Service Changed the Industry|Alex Suskind|June 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The RIAA would have been fools not to have brought that initial lawsuit against Napster.
15 Years After Napster: How the Music Service Changed the Industry|Alex Suskind|June 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST