napster

If the artist says their trying to send a message through song or film, it should be part of "fair use" I felt it was a scam that the music industry went after "napster" and the other one with the "K" in it.

Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals - Boing Boing 2009

We've been seeing exactly this same battle play out in the music industry, which has pitted the RIAA against file-sharing services such as napster and bittorrent.

George Fearing: 4th Congressional District deserves better representation 2008

Or have napster-like auctions between computers, with no centralized host site.

Is John Donahoe Finally Turning eBay Around? 2009

One of the reasons I embraced digital music so long before the napster days was the fact that I would never have to buy some albums for the 20th time. for all who say "trash the discs, you can always get them again later if you really want" ...... wrong.

Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection? Boing Boing 2010

If I remember correctly the statistics showed that the number of CD sales were on an all times high correlating with the times when napster was on its high times. (which would make sense since people could explore new music for free in low quality mp3 and buy the CDs afterwards)

Napster: 10 today, had it survived 2009

Everybody in big media seems to miss the real appeal of the original napster.

Best Buy Bails Out Failing Napster - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Napster - at free. napster.com - has been offering a similar service for some time now.

Last.FM Has a First With Streaming Music - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

If I remember correctly the statistics showed that the number of CD sales were on an all times high correlating with the times when napster was on its high times. which would make sense since people could explore new music for free in low quality mp3 and buy the CDs afterwards

Napster: 10 today, had it survived 2009

Something about taking away the free in Free-99 just makes this the napster syndrome.

Pirate Bay To Start Charging Users Monthly Fee | Lifehacker Australia 2009

YouTubers enjoy watching copyrighted videos as much as old napster users enjoyed downloading copyrighted music.

If MySpace Can Block Copyrighted Videos, Why Can’t YouTube? 2007