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The 2013 film Downloaded is a documentary about sharing media on the Internet and includes the history of Napster. The 2024 film How Music Got Free, a documentary based on the non-fiction book How Music Got Free mentions file sharing on the Internet with mentions of Napster and other applications.
Shawn Fanning (born November 22, 1980) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and angel investor.He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing platforms, in 1999.
May 29, 2024 at 6:00 AM. ... Fans no longer had to buy a $20 CD just to get the two songs they liked — you could get every song posted on Napster for free. A $40-billion record industry began a ...
June 1999 – Napster was created by Shawn Fanning. Napster let users search across all users' shares. Napster provided a centralized server that indexed the files, and carried out the searches. [28] Individual files, however, remain on the hosts' computers and were transferred directly from peer to peer.
In 2002, Roxio bought the assets of the original Napster at its bankruptcy auction and acquired PressPlay in May 2003 for $40 million. [5] After integrating the services, Roxio launched a revamped Napster in October 2003, whereby users were able to download songs a-la-carte or pay for a monthly unlimited download and streaming media service.
Napster [3] [4] is a music streaming service based in Seattle, Washington, United States.Until 2016, the service was known domestically as Rhapsody before rebranding as Napster, the same name brand that was used by Roxio's Napster.
In June 1999, Napster was released as an unstructured centralized peer-to-peer system, [2] requiring a central server for indexing and peer discovery. It is generally credited as being the first peer-to-peer file sharing system. In December 1999, Napster was sued by several recording companies and lost in A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.. [3]
On March 12, 2013, following the world premiere at SXSW, there was a panel discussion including director Alex Winter and Napster co-founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker. [ 11 ] The film subsequently screened within such festivals as Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and Maryland Film Festival , with Alex Winter hosting ...