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The Napster name started life as a renegade free MP3 file-sharing service in 1999 founded by then-college-student Shawn Fanning. The Napster brand name was bought in 2002 and used for the current legal service which uses copy protection software called digital rights management (DRM) to prevent the illegal sharing of songs by consumers.
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On May 12, 2006, Napster unveiled the new Napster.com, an interactive, ad-supported, free online music destination. The company ... introduced NapsterLinks, URLs that link to specific songs, albums or artists in the Napster.com catalog that can be embedded in e-mails, instant messages, blogs and other Web sites.
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LOS ANGELES, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Napster, a division of Roxio , today announced a distinctive new promotional campaign that will put a free MP3 player in the hands of every new annual Napster subscriber. 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies presentation. The new Napster offering provides consumers with a legal, safe and simple way to listen, discover and share full-length tracks from Napster's 750,000 song catalog and take their favorite music on the go.
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Napster is now a pay service that you have to buy music instead of downloading it for free. Sounds bad doesn't it? Well you can look at it in two ways. You can say their is better solutions than Napster and that is getting songs for free. But then you can look at what Napster does and your saftey of getting sued. Napster is supported by the RIAA so you don't have to worry about being sued.
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Boasting millions of registered users, Napster was once one of the most popular network software applications in history. Napster allowed its members to exchange music files over the Internet for free. Napster implemented a relatively simple IP-based protocol for communicating control operations and data. Napster ... implemented a custom name space similar to, but separate from, DNS.
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Napster, needless to say, disputed the courts findings, and executives said the company will pursue "every avenue" to keep its free file exchange humming. But the ruling was ... angrily denounced by the consumer electronics industry. "If the content industry has its way, the play button will become the pay button," said Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association.
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