Napster is a music streaming service based in Seattle, Washington, United States. Until 2016, the service was known domestically as Rhapsody before rebranding...

the Napster streaming service was acquired by two Web3 companies, Hivemind and Algorand. In March 2025, Napster was sold to Infinite Reality. Napster was...

Napster, commonly known as "Napster 2.0", was a music streaming service and digital music store, launched by Roxio in 2003 under the purchased name and...

service under the Napster brand, which included an online music store and subscription music streaming. Pandora Radio launched in 2005; the service initially...

on-demand music streaming services. These services offer streaming of full-length content via the Internet as a part of their service, without the listener...

content. Streaming is more commonly used for video on demand, streaming television, and music streaming services over the Internet. While streaming is most...

Deezer, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Amazon Music, YouTube, Qobuz, Spotify, Napster, Tidal, Discogs, as well as others. In April 2015, Tidal partnered with...

unauthorized "file sharing" has proven successful for centralized networks like Napster, and untenable for decentralized networks like Gnutella or BitTorrent....

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides a myriad of services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the...

peer-to-peer file sharing service Napster, in which the band and several other artists filed lawsuits against the service for sharing their copyright-protected...

(Metallica v. Napster, Inc.). As of April 2025[update], "I Disappear" was available for streaming via the Napster streaming music service. "I Disappear"...

philanthropist, most notable for co-founding the file-sharing computer service Napster, and was the first president of the social networking website Facebook...

development of Napster, a music and file sharing service created by Shawn Fanning that made a major impact on the Internet scene in 2000. Some services have tethered...

Like Napster, Limewire struggled through multiple legal battles and inevitably wound up being shut down. Spotify and other on-demand streaming services are...

(DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed name service that provides a naming system for computers, services, and other resources on the Internet or other...

the architecture was popularized by the Internet file sharing system Napster, originally released in 1999. P2P is used in many protocols such as BitTorrent...

passed, and the first mp3 player devices were launched. In June 1999, Napster was released as an unstructured centralized peer-to-peer system, requiring...

retailer that was once the UK's largest music retailer. Napster was an online music file sharing service created by Shawn Fanning while he was attending Northeastern...

actions as analogous to the RIAA's copyright infringement case against Napster. Although it was in operation for just three months before shutting down...

proposed service that would stream movies to the home the same day its released in theaters. It was co-founded by Sean Parker (the co-founder of Napster) and...

response to the popularity of Napster. Universal and Sony created PressPlay rather than joining RealNetworks' online service MusicNet, which had signed BMG...

of online piracy began with a P2P (peer to peer) music sharing service named Napster, launched in 1999. Sites like LimeWire, The Pirate Bay, and BitTorrent...

He is the co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of music streaming service Spotify. As of May 2025, his net worth was estimated at $9.2 billion...

artist at the click of a button. Napster laid the groundwork for the coming wave of streaming audio services. Music streaming became prominent in the 2000s...

and IRC before Napster popularised a Windows application that allowed users to both upload and download with a freemium style service. Record companies...

Jan Jannink (formerly of Napster), and many of its core engineering team came from the original Napster file-sharing service. The company takes its name...

prior to numerous methods and still continue to be used. The release of Napster in 1999 caused a rapid upsurge in online piracy of music, films and television...

to compiling online streaming data. Radio airplay is readily available on a real-time basis, unlike sales figures and streaming, but is also tracked...

serve as the service's general manager. After a little more than a year, the service was discontinued. "Stat clash: Spotify v Sky Songs v Napster | Electricpig"...

gained ground among file sharers abandoning Napster in 2001. Some observing the previous downfall of Napster via lawsuit were shocked at the design of Audiogalaxy...