Late Sunday night, music-swapping firm Napster offered its first tangible olive branch to the record industry, turning on a filtering system meant to block thousands of songs from being traded. As ...

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Back in June, the company announced Napster Companion, a platform that offers an array of AI-based agents that can offer ...

On July 11, 2001, the popular, controversial, and revolutionary file sharing website Napster shut down their service in compliance with an injunction from an ongoing lawsuit filed by the Recording ...

Until just a few weeks ago, a low-profile Bertelsmann subsidiary was testing a file-swapping search engine that could have expanded the media giant's profile well beyond that of controversial partner ...

Roxio says its revamped online music service, Napster, will debut in time for the holiday season and will give people access to music through a subscription or via an a la carte option. The new ...

After a year of legal fits and starts--and repeated attempts to clean up some copyright violations on its own--Napster's anti-piracy efforts are finally official. At the end of the day Monday, the ...

In the past, Napster has maintained that it is unable to block offending files without dismantling the entire system. The court rejected that claim, holding that Napster “has the ability to locate ...

This story originally appeared on Mental Floss. Long before iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube allowed us to discover new music with a tap of a phone, there was Napster, the world’s most controversial ...

Music sharing service Napster has released a new version of their client software for the Macintosh. The new version, Napster 1.0b2, is ready for download from Napster’s servers now. This is the first ...