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    Napster was an American peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing application primarily associated with digital audio file distribution. Founded by Shawn Fanning...
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  • domestically as Rhapsody before rebranding as Napster, the same name brand that was used by Roxio's Napster. Napster started as an audio search engine named...
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  • Metallica, et al. v. Napster, Inc. was a 2000 U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California case that focused on copyright infringement...
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    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...
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    A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004 (9th. Cir., 2001) was a landmark intellectual property case in which the United States Court of Appeals...
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    Metallica (redirect from Napster Bad)
    Metallica led the case against the peer-to-peer file sharing service Napster, in which the band and several other artists filed lawsuits against the...
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    investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing platforms, in 1999. The popularity of Napster was widespread and...
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  • transformed into a public good, largely due to one player in the market: Napster. Napster, a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network where users could upload...
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    Sean Parker (section Napster)
    philanthropist, most notable for co-founding the file-sharing computer service Napster, and was the first president of the social networking website Facebook...
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    self-released – collection of outtakes Acoustic E.P. (2004), Capitol – digital EP Napster Sessions (2004), Capitol – digital EP Connect Set (2006), Capitol – digital...
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    known for his work at Napster, the file-sharing service he co-founded along with Shawn Fanning and others. His time at Napster was documented in Joseph...
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    EP (Source, 2000) – 7"/CD Fight or Flight (Source, 2000) – 7"/CD NapsterLive (Napster, 2005) – Digital download The Red Moon EP (Source, 2005) – 7"/CD...
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  • of copyrighted material through Napster. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) took notice of Napster's ability to distribute copyrighted...
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    his native Neukölln. In 2008–2009, Fools Garden released two new EPs, Napster Session 2008 and Home, as well as a compilation album High Times - The...
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    Lars Ulrich (section Napster)
    Ulrich listens to jazz. In April 2000, Ulrich became a vocal opponent of Napster and file sharing as Metallica filed a lawsuit against the company for copyright...
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  • Chris Gorog (section Napster)
    and Silicon Valley, including as chairman and chief executive officer of Napster, a top digital music brand, and Roxio. Gorog played a central role in efforts...
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  • OpenNap was an open-source Napster server, extending the Napster protocol to allow sharing of any media type, and adding the ability to link servers together...
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  • It is estimated that the total number of users was greater than that of Napster at its peak. [citation needed] The FastTrack protocol and Kazaa were created...
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  • as Napster, Aimster, Grokster, and Morpheus. The courts have applied the Sony Betamax ratio differently in all these cases. For instance, Napster was...
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  • Ali Aydar (section Napster)
    known as an early employee and key technical contributor at the original Napster, the file-sharing service created by Shawn Fanning in 1999, and at SNOCAP...
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  • passed, and the first mp3 player devices were launched. In June 1999, Napster was released as an unstructured centralized peer-to-peer system, requiring...
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  • Rock to produce the song. The song's leak on the file-sharing service Napster prompted the band to sue the service. The soundtrack single was released...
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    the architecture was popularized by the Internet file sharing system Napster, originally released in 1999. P2P is used in many protocols such as BitTorrent...
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    companies and news outlets for exaggerating how many people used Napster for digital piracy. "Napster was a huge threat to the power structure," Winter said.[citation...
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  • include John Hummer and Ann Winblad. The firm was an early investor in Napster, the first popular file sharing service, and in several internet firms...
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    piracy was Napster. Napster enabled users to exchange music files over a common free server without any regard for copyright laws. Napster was quickly...
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  • "Download Songs | Napster". www.napster.co.uk. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved July 31, 2015. "Overview". Napster. Archived from the...
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  • end of the first generation of P2P networks typified by the shutdown of Napster in July 2001. Skype itself was based on Kazaa's P2P backend, which allowed...
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  • Curtis Curtis (add.) Princess Superstar (add.) 3:32 7. "You Get Mad at Napster" C. Kirschner Princess Superstar Curtis Curtis (add.) 4:05 8. "Untouchable...
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  • unauthorized "file sharing" has proven successful for centralized networks like Napster, and untenable for decentralized networks like Gnutella or BitTorrent....
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