Napster Then and Now
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Napster
Launched in: June 1, 1999
Developer(s): Shawn Fanning, Sean Parker
Discontinued: 2011
Online ServicesP2PWindows 🔗
Reason of death 👻
How Napster looked like and how it is now:
Then
Now
Description
Napster is a set of three music-focused online services. It was founded in 1999 as a pioneering peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing Internet software that emphasized sharing digital audio files, typically audio songs, encoded in MP3 format. As the software became popular, the company ran into legal difficulties over copyright infringement. It 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.
