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‘Napster’ Is No More
After being bought out in October by eternal archrival Rhapsody, music subscription service “Napster” has shut down. Heading to Napster.com now gets you an explanation of what happened and a Rhapsody sales pitch.
I put “Napster” in quotation marks–-a practice I’ve followed, albeit inconsistently, for years–-because the …
The Day the Music Died: Why Labels Are Abandoning Streaming Music Services
What happens to streaming music services when they have no music left to stream? That seemingly zen question may be answered if more record labels follow the lead of the more than 200 labels that have withdrawn their catalogs …
The iPod Turns 10: How It Shaped Music History
Though the Apple Store memorials have since given way to long lines for the iPhone 4S, it’s still difficult to imagine the technology company without Steve Jobs at its helm. And while much has been written about the gadgets that defined perhaps Jobs’ most productive decade, it’s tough to isolate one device for its impact above the …
Napster No More: Rhapsody Nabs Subscribers, Assets
Napster’s long, troubled life is finally coming to an end, with Rhapsody acquiring the service’s subscribers and assets from Best Buy. The Napster brand will be phased out as part of the deal.
Napster was best known for its early run as a peer-to-peer music sharing service (read: a way to download pirated MP3s) before the advent of …
Whatever Happened to P2P File Sharing Sites like Kazaa and Morpheus?
I first learned about Napster in my freshman geometry class from a varsity football guy who warmed the bench. Up to that point, I was still lurking in AOL chatrooms to download tracks from moderators and their Comic Sans bots—which, if you think about it—was a really weird and impractical way to get free mp3s.
But Napster changed …
Galaxy Tab Users Can Tune Into Slacker Radio, Tune Out Spotify?
Slacker Radio, a free streaming personalized Internet service, announced that you’ll be able to stream musiPreviewc via the Samsung Galaxy Tab when it comes out next month. The app will come pre-installed on the Galaxy Tab or you can download it for the Amazon Kindle, iPhone, iPod touch, WebOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile …
R.I.P. Limewire, Stealing Music With You Will Be Missed
After battling with the music industry in the US court system for almost half a decade, a federal court in New York finally shut down peer-to-peer file sharing website Limewire with a permanent injunction, saying the program caused a “massive scale of infringement.”
Since Napster eventually collapsed under the strain of its legal …