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2. Music piracy - Wikipedia

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   Napster was a free file sharing software created by college student Shawn Fanning to enable people to share and trade music files in mp3 format. Napster became hugely popular because it made it so easy to share and download music files. However, the heavy metal band Metallica sued the company for copyright infringement. [11]

3. Online piracy - Wikipedia

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   The release of Napster in 1999 caused a rapid upsurge in online piracy of music, films and television, though it always maintained a focus on music in the MP3 format. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It allowed users to share content via peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing and was one of the first mainstream uses of this distribution methods as it made it easy for ...

4. Napster - Wikipedia

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   The most notable was the open source client called MacStar, released by Squirrel Software in early 2000, and Rapster, released by Overcaster Family in Brazil. [11] The release of MacStar's source code paved the way for third-party Napster clients across all computing platforms, giving users advertisement-free music distribution options.

5. Timeline of file sharing - Wikipedia

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   September 1995 – The Fraunhofer Society released WinPlay3, the first software mp3 player for Windows. June 1996 – Mp3 warez group Rabid Neurosis founded. Using connections inside record companies, they rip pre-release music CDs, and make the mp3's available for others to download. [13]

6. List of music sharing websites - Wikipedia

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   Free 14000000 General France: Google Play Music: 2011 15000 Trial-ware: 50,000 General United States: Jamendo: 2005 400000 Free — General Luxembourg: Live Music Archive: 1996 170000 Free — General United States: Musopen: 2005 — Free — Classical music: United States: Noise Trade: 2008 — Free 1.3000000 General United States: SoundCloud ...

7. Comparison of BitTorrent sites - Wikipedia

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   A directory is also a site where users can find other websites. Some sites focus on certain content – such as etree that focuses on live concerts – and some have no particular focus, like The Pirate Bay. Some sites specialize as search engines of other BitTorrent sites.