Copyright lawsuits and ethical debates have led some to say the AI industry is in its “Napster era.” Now, Napster itself is ...

As Janko Roettgers reports at GigaOm, Napster's offices in LA and San Diego will close, and December 16 will be the last day of work for the company's 120 employees.. Rhapsody didn't pay any cash ...

Napster founder Shawn Fanning, center, listens as the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on online entertainment Tuesday, April 3, 2001, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Napster’s real boss was not Shawn Fanning, the Boston teenager who dreamed up the revolutionary technology and became an instant celebrity, gracing the cover last year of Time magazine.

Napster responded by blocking access for more than 30,000 people,but new users continued trading the band’s music. ‘This Is Not Sharing ’ “We’re elated,” Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich ...

Napster lives on. Since its file-sharing operation was shut down in 2001, Napster has been bought and reimagined several times. Harry McCracken, global technology editor at Fast Company, says the ...

A California federal judge ruled Thursday that three authors suing Anthropic over copyright infringement can bring a class ...

In 1999, when Napster launched, music CD sales accounted for $23.4 billion, or nearly 88% of recorded music revenue, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.Overall, 1999 ...

Napster has outlined a security service created by Bertelsmann affiliate Digital World Services, which would prevent songs from being burned to CD or transferred to portable devices.

Napster has agreed to pay American songwriters and music publishers $26 million, as well as a portion of future revenues, to settle the lawsuit pending in federal court.. The agreement remains ...

And Napster's $10,000 reckoning also assumes that everything on an iPod is purchased at the iTunes Music Store. In reality, you could have plenty of MP3s already, from ripping CDs and dredging the ...