Crossword clues for napster
napster
- Music download Web site
- MP3-sharing service of the early 2000s
- Metallica lawsuit defendant
- ITunes competitor
- File-sharing service launched in 1999
- File-sharing service
- Early peer-to-peer player
- Early file-sharing service
- Defunct music-sharing service
- Controversial online music service
- Company founded by Shawn Fanning
- Company in a prominent 2000 lawsuit
- Modern music source
- Early MP3-sharing Web site
- Music download source
- Onetime foe of the recording industry
- Best Buy buy
- Online music source
- Source of downloadable tunes
- Website relaunched 10/29/03
- Online music service
- Music source that merged with Rhapsody in 2011
Wikipedia
Napster was the name given to two music-focused online services. It was originally founded as a pioneering peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing Internet service that emphasized sharing audio files, typically music, encoded in MP3 format. The original company ran into legal difficulties over copyright infringement, ceased operations and was eventually acquired by Roxio. In its second incarnation Napster became an online music store until it was acquired by Rhapsody from Best Buy on December 1, 2011.
Later companies and projects successfully followed its P2P file sharing example such as Gnutella, Freenet, Kazaa, Bearshare, and many others. Some services, like LimeWire, Scour, Grokster, Madster, and eDonkey2000, were brought down or changed due to similar circumstances.
Napster is an online music store and a Rhapsody company, branded under the purchased name and trademarks of former free file sharing service Napster.