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| Jun 3, 2026 | Распространение CD-R и кризис музыкальной индустрии | В 1982 году Philips и Sony выпустили компакт-диск, и музыкальная индустрия получила самый доходный физический носитель вплоть до наступления эпохи стриминга. В пиковом 1999 году CD-продажи в США принесли около $12,8 млрд из общих $14,6 млрд... |
| May 17, 2026 | Пиратство, копирайт и DMCA: как Napster, The Pirate Bay и YouTube изменили закон. Часть I | Весной 2000 года Ларс Ульрих, барабанщик Metallica, пришел к офису предшественника «торрента» Napster с картонными коробками. В них — распечатанные списки с именами 300 000 человек. Это фанаты группы, которых Ульрих требует заблокировать на... |
| Dec 28, 2025 | This fund logged a 950% return on SpaceX. Here’s what happened next | |
| Sep 27, 2025 | AI vs artists: who owns the future of music? | The music industry took years to recover financially from the impact of the disruptive technology of peer-to-peer file sharing driven by Napster. It again finds itself at a critical junction – this time over how it navigates the terrain pre... |
| Aug 9, 2025 | This Week In Techdirt History: August 3rd – 9th | Five Years Ago
This week in 2020, we looked at how the DHS was surveilling journalists who published leaked documents and how they obtained the encrypted messages of protestors. The FCC was trying to pretend Trump’s executive order about so... |
| Jul 16, 2025 | LG BRINGS PREMIUM STREAMING TO NEW KIA MODELS IN EUROPE WITH WEBOS AUTOMOTIVE CONTENT PLATFORM | Proven In-Car Entertainment Solution Delivers Immersive Media Experiences and Transforms New Kia Models into "Living Spaces on Wheels"
SEOUL, South Korea, July 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics (LG), a leading innovator in m... |
| Jun 18, 2025 | CEO of Sean Parker’s breakthrough cancer drug institute on leading new race for cure | As the first female CEO at the more than century-old American Cancer Society, and first CEO to come from oncology research, Karen Knudsen oversaw a 30% rise in revenue.
She recently assumed the CEO post at the Parker Institute for Cancer Im... |
| May 1, 2025 | Best Stocks: This ‘Netflix of music’ is a rare name that’s both growth and defensive | |
| Apr 21, 2025 | Touchcast Acquired by Infinite Reality for $500M | Infinite Reality™ (iR), an innovation company powering the next generation of digital media and ecommerce through extended reality (XR), artificial intelligence (AI), and other immersive technologies, announced today the company has entered... |
| Apr 17, 2025 | Infinite Reality's Bold Leap into AI: A $500 Million Acquisition of Touchcast | In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, Infinite Reality Inc. has made a significant move. The company, known for its immersive digital media experiences, has announced its acquisition of Touchcast, an agentic artificial intelligence ... |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Infinite Reality To Acquire Agentic AI Company Touchcast For $500 Million In A Deal That Values Infinite Reality At $15.5Billion | Touchcast’s AI technology to be integrated with Infinite Reality’s portfolio of products and services including Napster, iR Studio, and iR Enterprise
Infinite Reality™ (iR), an innovation company powering the next generation of digital medi... |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Metaverse platform Infinite Reality expands AI capabilities with $500M Touchcast acquisition
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| Mar 26, 2025 | Napster's New Chapter: From File Sharing to Virtual Reality Concerts | Napster is back. After more than 25 years of twists and turns, the iconic brand has been acquired for $207 million by Infinite Reality. This marks a significant pivot from its roots as a file-sharing service to a new role in the metaverse. ... |
| Mar 25, 2025 | 'No Better Name': Napster Acquired for $200 Million to 'Disrupt' the Metaverse Napster was once a file-sharing service that allowed users to download songs for free. | Napster gained popularity over 25 years ago by allowing users to download MP3 songs for free. At its peak in February 2001, it had an estimated 80 million users.
After legal challenges, Napster shut down in July 2001. In 2016, it was reborn... |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Napster pioneered music sharing over 25 years ago. It just got bought for $207 million | More than 25 years ago after throwing the music industry into disarray, Napster is being purchased for $207 million.
The acquirer is Infinite Reality, which plans to create virtual 3D spaces that allow music fans to enjoy concerts or listen... |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Napster is back: 25 years after its launch, the iconic music-sharing platform is acquired for $207M to disrupt the metaverse | Napster, once known for shaking up the music industry with its controversial peer-to-peer sharing model, is making a comeback. On Tuesday, 3D tech company Infinite Reality announced it acquired the iconic brand for $207 million. The new vis... |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Napster sold to tech commerce company for $207 million | Originally Published: March 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM MDT |
| Feb 7, 2025 | AI Is an Answer, But Not the Only Answer — Here's Why It Can't Replace Humans The detriments of lacking human touch due to AI are not unique to the music industry: It's a conversation being grappled with across business industries from retail to media. How do industries strike a balance between ...... | As we emerge from Spotify Wrapped season, many will agree that this past year's recaps looked a bit … different, disappointing some who proclaimed this iteration a "flop" due to over-reliance on generative AI, barely a year after ... |
| Sep 16, 2024 | 40 little-known but fascinating facts about the tech industry | Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin pose for a 1998 photograph in the garage of late YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki. Image: Google
TechCentral presents 40 less-known facts about the history and development of the global technology indust... |
| Aug 15, 2024 | The Rise of MP3Juices: Navigating the World of Free Music Downloads | In the digital age, music is as accessible as air. With a few clicks, anyone can dive into a sea of melodies. Among the many platforms available, MP3Juices stands out as a beacon for free music downloads. But what makes it so appealing? Let... |
| Aug 12, 2024 | MP3Juices: The Ultimate Guide to Free Music Downloads | Share
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MP3Juices is one of the most popular platforms for free music downloads. If you’re a music lover looking for an easy way to download your favorite songs without spending a dime, mp3juices might be the solution ... |
| Aug 2, 2024 | The AI Infrastructure Revolution: Pioneering the Future of Data Management and Security | The landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving rapidly. Companies are racing to build robust infrastructures that can support the demands of AI applications. This race is not just about speed; it’s about efficiency, scalability, ... |
| Aug 1, 2024 | TerraZero Technologies Collaborates with Enterprise AI Specialists Qeleo to Accelerate Scalability of Intraverse | BIGG Digital Assets a leading innovator in the digital assets space and owner of Netcoins, Blockchain Intelligence Group, and TerraZero is pleased to announce TerraZero’s collaboration with artificial intelligence company Qeleo (Qeleo.com);... |
| Jun 3, 2024 | Взлёт и падение Napster — сервиса, который навсегда изменил музыкальную индустрию | Сейчас уже подросло поколение, у которого при упоминании Napster ничего не всколыхнется. Однако влияние этой компании на музыкальную индустрию было огромным. Этот революционный сервис изменил способ распространения музыки на рубеже XX и XXI... |
| Jun 1, 2024 | Napster Sparked a File-Sharing Revolution 25 Years Ago | The invention of the MP3 format in 1993 didn’t make any mainstream news headlines. In hindsight, however, it was a pivotal moment that would revolutionize music consumption, and more.
Invented by the German engineer Karlheinz Brandenburg an... |
| May 31, 2024 | Exploring Ytmp3: A New Era of Music Conversion Tools | Share
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In the ever-evolving digital landscape, the way people consume and access music has undergone a transformative shift. Ytmp3, a groundbreaking online tool, has ushered in a new era of music conversion, empowerin... |
| Apr 1, 2024 | The Pirate Bay’s Oldest Torrent is Now 20 Years Old | When The Pirate Bay first came online, in the second half of 2003, the ‘internet’ looked nothing like it does today.
A Harvard student had yet to start writing the first lines of code on a new idea, called “TheFacebook”. YouTube wasn’t arou... |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Tennessee Just Passed a New Law to Protect Musicians From a Growing AI Threat — And Even Taylor Swift Has Been a Victim Tennessee is the first U.S. state to pass legislation protecting music industry professionals. | |
| Apr 4, 2023 | Experimental Electronic Music Artist Billy Yfantis Releases The Otherworldly Music Album “Birds in Space” | Billy Yfantis - Birds In Space
An album consisting of 27 Experimental compositions inspired by Astronomy and artists like Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, and Cluster featuring real bird sounds! ATHENS, GREECE, April 4, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- ... |
| Dec 8, 2022 | Greek Electronic Music Artist Billy Yfantis Releases The Epic Classical Music Album “Cinematic Works, Vol. II” | Billy Yfantis - Cinematic Works, Vol. II
A double album consisting of 50 Symphonic compositions inspired by artists like Rick Wakeman, Howard Shore, Vangelis, and Basil Poledouris. ASHEVILLE, NC, USA, December 8, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- ... |
| Oct 13, 2022 | Greek Electronic Music Artist Billy Yfantis Releases The Soundtrack Of His Performance At Norcal Noisefest 2022! | Billy Yfantis - "The Universe Collapses"
A 14-minute hypnotic composition inspired by artists like Tangerine Dream, Sunn O)), and Merzbow. ATHENS, GREECE, October 13, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Experimental musician and author Bil... |
| Apr 6, 2022 | Experimental Musician Billy Yfantis Releases “The Nebula Voyager” Album Exploring Sounds From The Outer Space | Billy Yfantis - The Nebula Voyager
An album of 19 Spaced-Out compositions inspired by Astronomy and artists such as Tangerine Dream, Hans Zimmer, Steve Hillage and John Carpenter ASHEVILLE, NC, USA, April 6, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Exper... |
| Mar 28, 2022 | Bobby Sealz, a hip-hop sensation from Detroit, releases two singles; streaming on all leading music platforms | Call you back’ and ‘POP’ have reintroduced Bobby Sealz as the most promising hip-hop artist in the industry DETROIT, MI, USA, March 28, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Bobby Sealz, a hip-hop prodigy from Detroit, is setting a new level in hip-ho... |
| Dec 23, 2021 | «Китайские гиганты» — когда «единорог» кажется букашкой | «Китайские гиганты» — когда «единорог» кажется букашкой |
| Sep 12, 2021 | Napster, LimeWire и другие: пиратские сервисы из начала 2000-х, которые сделали музыку доступной Статьи редакции | Появление формата MP3 в начале 90-х впервые позволило людям слушать музыку бесплатно и без ограничений. The Next Web вспоминает, какие были популярные пиратские сервисы и как они работали.
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| Aug 25, 2020 | UK immersive music startup MelodyVR buys Napster for $70M in reverse takeover | Napster, the pioneering digital music brand from way back when, is changing hands once more. Today, a U.K. startup called MelodyVR, which creates immersive live music experiences that you watch either through VR headsets or phones, announce... |
| Jun 1, 2019 | File-Sharing Legend “Napster” Turns 20 Years Old Today | Somewhere in the fall of 1998 a user named ‘Napster’ joined the w00w00 IRC channel, a chatroom on the EFnet network populated by a few dozen elite ‘hackers’.
‘Napster’ shared a new idea with the group. The then 17-year-old developer wanted ... |
| Jun 15, 2016 | Napster returns! Well, it’s a cat logo on top of Rhapsody, wearing a Napster trench coat | The DJ Cat logo will remain associated with the Napster brand. reader comments 80 with 57 posters participating
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| Nov 24, 2015 | Contextual Search Platform Atlas Is Ivy Softworks’ First Spinoff | Ivy Softworks — a so-called “innovation studio” founded by Napster’s Jordan Ritter in Seattle — is taking the wraps off its first products today. It is launching a contextual information search platform called Atlas; and it’s also unveiling... |
| Nov 19, 2011 | Spotify gets canned by over 200 labels, citing detriment to music industry | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Over 200 labels falling under distributor STHoldi... |
| Sep 17, 2011 | Top 5 on-demand streaming music services feat. Spotify, MOG and Rdio | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
There’s a digital music revolution afoot. For the... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | Is Amazon’s Cloud Locker Really an Innovation? | Amazon has just launched a suite of music products that allow users to store their tracks online and them stream them over the Web or to any Android device courtesy of the Amazon MP3 mobile application. The launch has the tech world abuzz, ... |
| Oct 11, 2010 | The Art & Science of Music Recommendation Engines | I don’t know about you, but if I ever have to listen to that same, 12-song playlist on the local classic rock station ever again, I might go completely insane. Thankfully, we live in the modern age of music recommendation engines, where I c... |
| Oct 7, 2010 | Logitech unveils the Revue for Google TV | The Revue comes with a computer keyboard and HD camera for video conferencing
Logitech unveiled late Wednesday its new product for Google TV, the Revue, at a media event in San Francisco and New York City. The set top box comes with a light... |
| Oct 4, 2010 | Google TV gets more real: Content partnerships and more apps announced (video) | Google has been fairly quiet on the progress of Google TV since it was announced five months ago, but now the company seems ready to spin up its hype machine once again.
In a blog post today, Google TV product manager and developer Ambarish... |
| Sep 20, 2010 | Napster launches on Apple's iPhone | How will the paid service compare to Pandora's free one?
Napster was released Monday for Apple iOS devices, expanding the music service from PC and Mac, to a whole new slew of gadgets from the iPhone, iPod to the iPad. The download, which i... |
| Aug 5, 2010 | Rdio Gaga: How Spotify's Inferior Rival Is Playing America Like A Violin | Poor old Spotify. Less than a week after Billboard magazine reported that the music-on-demand service had “rebooted” its negotiations with US labels, rival service Rdio has just opened its doors in both the US and Canada, proudly boasting d... |
| Jul 12, 2010 | Spotify Arrives For Linux | Streaming music service Spotify may not have made its way to the U.S. quite yet, but it has arrived in another much requested realm: Linux.
A product of “hack days and late nights,” the Linux version is something that the company says it ho... |
| Apr 30, 2010 | Apple Shuts Down Lala: Here are 5 Alternatives | Apple plans to shut down Lala, the cloud-based streaming music service it bought in December 2009. Lala stopped accepting new users today and will close on May 31. Thanks to its unlimited music locker and innovative pricing scheme, Lala had... |
| Dec 28, 2009 | 10 Years After Napster, Musicians Are Still Getting Screwed | Ten years ago, Napster revolutionized commercial music by – we’re all grownups, let’s call a spade a spade – democratizing piracy.
Without doubt, consumers in 1999 needed better access to music. They needed the opportunity to preview full t... |
| Nov 11, 2009 | Top Internet Trends of 2000-2009: Online Music | It’s November 2009 and we’re nearing the end of a decade. It’s been a tumultuous time of change for many industries, much of it driven by the Internet. With that in mind, over the coming weeks ReadWriteWeb will look back on the defining Web... |
| Sep 1, 2009 | Napster: no streaming to mobile just yet | Hoping to capitalize on the media frenzy surrounding the Federal Communications Commission's investigation into the iTunes app store approval policies, RealNetworks announced that it had submitted a Rhapsody iPhone app to Apple for review.
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| Jul 21, 2009 | KaZaA goes legit with boring subscription music service | reader comments 36 with 30 posters participating
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KaZaA is back... but only in name. The former illegal music P2P paradise has relaunched as a legit subscription music servi... |
| Jun 2, 2009 | Ten Years After Napster, Musicians Are Still Getting Screwed | Ten years ago yesterday, Napster revolutionized commercial music by – we’re all grownups; let’s call a spade a spade – democratizing piracy.
Without doubt, consumers in 1999 needed better access to music. They needed the opportunity to prev... |
| May 18, 2009 | Napster will slash its subscription fees | After nearly six years as a subscription-based service, Napster will make its library of over 7 million tracks available tomorrow for as low as five dollars a month. In addition to unlimited streaming, users get to keep five DRM-free tracks... |
| May 18, 2009 | Napster Relaunches Tonight, Here Are The Details | Last fall, Best Buy bought Napster for a jaw dropping $121 million, a staggering sum in the free-music era that Napster helped create. The electronics retailer thinks it can do something special with the music service though and now those p... |
| Oct 31, 2008 | Datz Music Lounge: Gimmick or the Future of Digital Music? | If you live in the U.K. and you have 100 British pounds to spare, you can now subscribe to the Datz Music Lounge, where those 100 pounds can buy you unlimited access to DRM-free MP3s for one year. According to Music Week, Datz features abou... |
| Sep 15, 2008 | Best Buy Acquires Napster: But Why? | Electronics retailer Best Buy today announced that it plans to acquire music retailer Napster for $121 Million. According to the Wall Street Journal, the deal values Napster at $2.65 a share, almost double its closing price on Friday. Howev... |
| Aug 8, 2008 | Apple Considers Streaming Media from iTunes to iPhone | AppleInsider has posted details about a patent recently filed by Apple that describes technology for playing iTunes content from a desktop computer remotely on an iPhone or iPod touch.
The new software would load only meta data about songs,... |
| Jun 29, 2008 | Rhapsody Agrees DRM Is Dead; Launches MP3 Store | Streaming music service Rhapsody has joined the likes of Wal-Mart, Amazon, and Napster by launching an MP3 store.
Its move to offer unprotected music downloads has been anticipated since last Fall when Real Networks joined forces with MTV a... |
| May 20, 2008 | New Napster store features 6 million DRM-free tracks | Napster’s had it up to here (pointing near the top of my head) and wants to regain its position as the King of Online Music. The new Napster web store opened its doors today and features six million DRM-free tracks, most for 99 cents apiece... |
| Mar 14, 2008 | Napster Mobile comes to UK, mobile music world yawns | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Jan 23, 2008 | Last.fm Jumps On The On-Demand Streaming Bandwagon | I’ve been saying for as long as anyone would listen to me that one day all the music ever recorded is going to be on the Internet and we are going to have sufficient bandwidth and connections on every possible listening device and at that p... |
| Jan 7, 2008 | Napster to Embrace Unprotected MP3 Sales | Napster announced that it will start selling music downloads as unprotected MP3 files in the spring. This is seen as a move to stay competitive with other online music retailers. The change will only apply to single tracks and album purchas... |
| Dec 9, 2007 | Universal adds catalog to imeem | Imeem, a Web site that offers playlists of music, has become immensely popular because it’s free — and legal. The music is ad-supported, and imeem keeps adding more music to it’s offering.
Indeed, less than five months after announcing a ne... |
| Nov 19, 2007 | AT&T to Sell First Napster Mobile Phone | If you have been hoping that a mobile phone is available for sale before the holidays that supports Napster’s wireless digital music service, your wish has been granted. Service provider AT&T and handset maker Samsung have collaborated ... |
| Oct 22, 2007 | AT&T Partners with Napster | AT&T announced today that Napster’s entire music catalog of over five million songs will be available to AT&T’s mobile phone customers early next month. The service will expand the company’s offerings beyond the independent music of... |
| Oct 22, 2007 | Amazon surges to #3 music store – and four online music stores could be roadkill | Amazon’s music store has only been in business for a month, and rumors are flying that it’s already the #3 online music seller.
It’s still far behind Apple iTunes, but that might change. One rumor even pegs Amazon passing the second largest... |
| Sep 25, 2007 | The Roizen Report: Making Sense of Millions of Voices | Words cannot describe the degree to which I hate shopping. Over-stimulation is probably at the root of my shopping aversion. There are too many choices and too many questions that go unanswered, which invariably raises the possibility for f... |
| Sep 24, 2007 | Virgin Digital downloads for the last time | The dangers of hooking yourself up to a DRM-enabled music rental store which could go bang at any moment are highlighted today with the news that Virgin Digital customers will lose all their music when the store closes its doors next month.... |
| May 24, 2007 | College music site Ruckus raises $10M | Ruckus, which provides college students free unlimited PC and laptop download access to more than two million songs, has raised $10 million in a second round of financing.
The service is apparently making headway on competitor Napster, whic... |
| Mar 30, 2007 | Parker’s Project Agape = Friendster + Facebook? | Entrepreneur Sean Parker’s latest undertaking is Project Agape, a secretive start-up working to empower people to further their political or social cause using the Internet.
Parker, 27, isn’t sharing much publicly about the company yet, but... |
| Mar 26, 2007 | Napster+AT&T=Free Music | Starting April 1, AT&T customers will have access to over three million songs through Napster To Go for an entire year, free of charge. This service applies to wireless handset users with the right plan as well as customers who have hom... |
| Mar 1, 2007 | Boycotting the RIAA? | I have been thinking a lot recently about the RIAA boycott organized by the gadget blog Gizmodo. They’re fed up with the RIAA’s actions regarding DRM and lawsuits, so they’re trying to get all their readers and everyone else who will listen... |
| Jan 14, 2007 | Napster Buys AOL Music: What's Next? | Napster is one of the oddest companies. It is a deeply unprofitable startup trying to grow a business, and with a huge war chest of cash. We have the rare ability to see deep into its financial situation because it is publicly held.
Napster... |
| Dec 12, 2006 | Founders Fund hires Sean Parker as partner, to launch second fund | The Founders Fund, the venture firm led by former PayPal chief executive Peter Thiel, has hired Sean Parker, the controversial entrepreneur, who has just turned 27, as a managing partner.
Parker somehow attracts attention wherever he goes. ... |
| Dec 2, 2006 | Fanning to launch Rupture, a social network for games | Shawn Fanning, founder of the popular music file sharing company Napster, is back in the game with a new start-up.
This time, Fanning wants to bring social networking to popular online games like World of Warcraft, as BusinessWeek first rep... |
| Sep 19, 2006 | Napster retains UBS to look for sale | Napster, the former Silicon Valley music sharing site, has hired investment bank UBS to help it look for a sale.
Napster, now based in Los Angeles and pursuing a legal music download site after having had an outlawed past, is making decent ... |
| Jul 12, 2006 | Rhapsody Web Services Expands – Interview and Profile | RealNetworks is announcing today an enhanced set of Rhapsody Web services APIs and RSS feeds,
along with a 3-month competition aimed at getting developers to build on their platform.
Rhapsody is one of the biggest music subscription
service... |
| Jun 30, 2006 | Napster Tries Free MP3 Player Promo | Napster has begun offering new customers its own branded music player for free in return for a one-year subscription to its music service. Users would be able to select from either a 256MB player at no charge that is capable of playing MP3,... |
| May 1, 2006 | Napster.com Goes Free, But Low Quality | In an effort to attract more subscribers to its digital music service, Napster on Monday launched an ad-supported offering that allows users to listen to over two million tracks free of charge. But there is a catch: the songs are streamed i... |
| Apr 11, 2006 | Subscription Music Services Compared: Part 2 | We’ve analyzed the services that sell digital music and are presenting the results in a two part post. This Part 2 compares the subcription music services that let you access an entire music library of up to 2 million songs for a single mon... |
| Apr 7, 2006 | Let’s Buy Some Music: Part 1 | We’ve analyzed the services that sell digital music (iTunes and its competitors). This Part 1 focuses on the pay-per-download services. In Part 2 (now posted) we’ll compare the all-you-can-eat subscription services.
While compact disc sales... |
| May 11, 2005 | Yahoo! vs. Rhapsody & Napster | Readers of this blog know that I love Rhapsody.
I honestly have never tried the new Napster.
Both of these services let you listen a huge music library over the Internet on demand.
You want to listen to a song or a record, you just type it ... |
| Feb 3, 2005 | Napster to 'Rent' Music for Portables | In its latest effort to unseat online music leader iTunes, Napster has turned its focus back to subscriptions. The digital music store is launching what it calls "Napster to Go," which allows customers to copy an unlimited number ... |
| Jan 13, 2005 | SightSound Asks Court to Close Napster | SightSound Technologies has filed a request for a preliminary injunction against Napster, asking the court to temporarily close the door on the song-swapping pioneer's music download business until it has reached a verdict. SightSound filed... |
| Oct 26, 2004 | Interview with Lucas Gonze of Webjay | Welcome to the first in a very special series of Web 2.0 interviews I’m
conducting on Read/Write Web. My goal is to
interview at least half a dozen people in the Web community who are building or shaping
Web 2.0 – i.e. the Web as
Platform.
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| May 6, 2004 | Integration Please | The comments on my iTunes posts have read like this;
“Sounds like you need Mixmatcher“
“Take a look at Webjay or Musicmobs“
“I think the service that combines Rhapsody and iTunes is called Napster 2.0.”
Etc, etc.
Of course, I love all of th... |
| Jun 26, 2001 | Real Demos MusicNet, Legal Downloads | Last week's Streaming Media West conference in Long Beach, California, was host to many exciting new technologies, including the upcoming music subscription service from MusicNet.
MusicNet was formed as a joint venture between RealNetworks,... |
| May 17, 2001 | Napster Seeks Beta Testers | Following legal woes and a massive drop in popularity, Napster is now asking its users for assistance. Changes in Napster's filters have caused many searches to not turn up any results, and music is not being shared. New filters are being i... |
| Feb 12, 2001 | Appeals Court Tells Napster To Stop the Music | The US Court of Appeals today said Napster
must put an end to the sharing of tunes from the world's biggest
record companies, unveiling a long-awaited decision that backs a
preliminary injunction ordered by a lower court in July.
The ruling... |
| Dec 2, 2000 | EMusic Turns Up Heat On Napster Users | Internet music site EMusic.com [Nasdaq: EMUS]
says about one-third of the Napster users that have been warned to stop
sharing its music have complied.
Using newly developed software, EMusic.com on Nov. 21 began sweeping
Napster files to loc... |
| Sep 9, 2000 | Music Industry Responds To Napster Tonight | Lawyers working for the record industry are filing
their opening brief tonight in a legal tussle with music-swapping
company Napster that has escalated to the US Court of Appeals.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the... |
| Jul 14, 2000 | The RIAA Strikes Back | The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)has accused Napster of using "euphemisms like 'sharing' to avoid the real issue," in its response in support of its motion for a preliminary injunction against the Napster site.
... |
| Jun 1, 2000 | Fans Dispute - Get Reconnected | Napster has announced that exactly 29,085 registered users of its service will be allowed to reconnect to the servers. After submitting counter arguments to the company that they did not violate copyright rules involved with Metallica, Naps... |
| Mar 23, 2000 | Indiana University Reinstates Napster...Temporarily | In a suprise move by university officials, the popular MP3 search program Napster will be reinstated after being blocked for more than a month. Indiana's student newspaper, the IDS, reported that the servers will be reopened for two weeks b... |
| Mar 13, 2000 | NapAmp Takes Winamp to a New Level | The first music-finding plug-in for Nullsoft Winamp has officially hit the Net. Dubbed NapAmp, the new plug-in allows a user to search for digital audio on the Web using the popular Napster service.
Under 70kb in size, NapAmp integrates its... |
