Napster
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Napster (plural Napsters)
(Internet) Any website that facilitates free distribution of data.
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Although it was clear that Napster could potentially have commercially significant non-infringing uses, the Ninth Circuit upheld the District Court's decision.
A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004 (9th Cir. 2001).
Computer career Napster On June 1, 1999, Fanning released a preliminary beta program of Napster and soon, hundreds of college students at Northeastern were trading music furiously.
A prototype solution was tested in the spring of 2002: the Napster 3.0 Alpha, using the ".
As an independent band, it had no formal promotion or radio play, yet it was able to tour in cities where it had never played and to sell out concerts, thanks to the spread of its music on Napster.
File-sharing networks such as Napster were flooded with bogus files bearing the titles' names.