Napster
Summary
Napster was an online music file sharing service created by Shawn Fanning while he was attending Northeastern University in Boston. The service operated between June 1999 and July 2001. Its technology allowed people to easily share their MP3 files with other participants, bypassing the established market for such songs and thus leading to massive copyright violations of music and film media as well as other intellectual property. Although the original service was shut down by court order, it paved the way for decentralized peer-to-peer file distribution programs, which have been much harder to control. The service was named Napster after Fanning's hairstyle-based nickname.Napster's brand and logo were purchased after the company closed its doors and continue to be used by a pay service.Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker first released the original Napster in June 1999.
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Why news sites benefit from having writers with legal backgrounds
Instagram’s famous new terms of service go into effect Saturday. News organizations just got a serious warning about plucking photographs from Twitter. Wouldn’t this be a great time for a news org to have a copyright lawyer on … Read more.
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Media Decoder Blog: Spotify Event Tries to Bury the Old Feuds Between Artists and Napster
On Thursday, Lars Ulrich of Metallica embraced Sean Parker, an investor in Spotify and a co-founder of the file-sharing site Napster. Back in 2000, Metallica sued Napster, accusing it of copyright infringement.
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Spotify Event Tries to Bury the Old Feuds Between Artists and Napster
On Thursday, Lars Ulrich of Metallica embraced Sean Parker, an investor in Spotify and a co-founder of the file-sharing site Napster. Back in 2000, Metallica sued Napster, accusing it of copyright infringement.
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Patent troll’s bell tolls for Viacom
Intertainer, a Web 1. 0-era video-on-demand provider turned patent litigator, has set its sights on its latest courtroom target, filing suit in Los Angeles Tuesday against Viacom.
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Airtime Introduces Video Chat Service
Airtime, a live video chat service designed by Napster founders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, hopes to recreate the spontaneity of the 1990s AOL chat rooms.
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Airtime: A Product and an Event
More than a decade after launching Napster, cofounders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning rolled out their latest product this morning—the video-chat platform Airtime—and simultaneously hosted a star-press-and-glitch-filled event in New York to hype the service.
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Fanning & Parker to launch Airtime: Here’s what we know
Airtime, the social video startup founded by Napster co-founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, is set to launch with a press event in New York Tuesday. Airtime has been billing itself as a “live video network” that supposedly offers “the most simple, fun way to connect live to people you know, and those you should.
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What To Do When Attacked by Pirates
If you were attacked by pirates, who would you want by your side? A loyal horde of head bangers, gangstas and hard-core punks? Or a brainy clutch of bookish types? I’d generally advise you to go with the former group. But it turns out that in the swashbuckling arena of digital piracy, the publishing world is acquitting itself far better than the brash music industry.
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The UK’s first weekly Official Streaming Chart - who's number one?
Released this week, the UK's first weekly streaming chart compiled from data from the likes of Spotify, Deezer, Napster, We7 and Xbox Live sees Carly Rae Jepsen crowned the first ever No. 1 artist.
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Airtime, from Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, to launch in June
Airtime, the social video startup founded by Napster co-founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, is going to publicly launch on June 5, according to a tweet the company sent out Tuesday.
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