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Napster, Inc.

455 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, California 95050
U.S.A.
Telephone: (408) 367-3100
Toll Free: (866) 280-7694
Fax: (408) 367-3103
Web site: http://www.napster.com

Public Company
Incorporated: 2000 as Roxio Inc.
Employees: 360
Sales: $99.3 million (2004)
Stock Exchanges: NASDAQ
Ticker Symbol: NAPS
NAIC: 518210 Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services

The one-time renegade provider of music file-sharing software, Napster, Inc. has been reborn as a legitimate Internet music subscription service that offers the work of more than 45,000 artists on an on-demand basis. All told, the Napster music library includes some 700,000 individual songs and 65,000 albums. The Santa Clara, California-based company offers two levels of service. Napster Light is designed for people who merely wish to purchase music, which costs 99 cents per track and $9.95 for an album. Users also are permitted to search for music and listen to 30-second clips. Purchased music can then be played on a computer, burned to a CD, or transferred to a portable device. In addition, Napster

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The Long Tail of File Sharing

I’m part of the Napster generation.

That means I pretty much stole all the music I grew up listening to. Unrepentantly, unremorsefully, downloaded everything.

Napster might seem like a dim and distant memory in internet time, but it’s easy to forget quite how game changing Napster was for both the music scene, and the industry.

For anyone who might be too young to remember, or perhaps not technically savvy enough at the time, Napster, while not the first way you could “borrow” music from the internet, was the first popular Peer-to-Peer file sharing network.

It was ridiculously easy - you installed the software, told it where your collection of MP3s (songs stored as files on your computer) were and everyone else did the same. You were faced with an empty search box and your imagination and it just worked.

You could search for anything you wanted, however esoteric, and for the most part, Napster delivered.

It’d hard to explain how much of a revelation this was in 1999 - a year after Google was founded, and a handful of years before search on the

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Napster

Online peer-to-peer file sharing software

This article is about the defunct peer-to-peer music download software. For the current streaming service, see Napster (streaming service). For the defunct pay service, see Napster (pay service).

Napster was an American peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing application primarily associated with digital audio file distribution. Founded by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, the platform originally launched on June 1, 1999. Audio shared on the service was typically encoded in the MP3 format. As the software became popular, the company encountered legal difficulties over copyright infringement. Napster ceased operations in 2001 after losing multiple lawsuits and filed for bankruptcy in June 2002.

The P2P model employed by Napster involved a centralized database that indexed a complete list of all songs being shared from connected clients. While effective, the service could not function without the central database, which was hosted by Napster and eventually forced to shut down. Following Napster's demise, alternative decentralized metho