What’s a Napster?
You don’t remember Napster?
Napster was the name given to two music-focused online services. It was originally founded as a pioneering peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing Internet service that emphasized sharing audio files, typically music, encoded in MP3 format. The original company ran into legal difficulties over copyright infringement, ceased operations and was eventually acquired by Roxio. In its second incarnation Napster became an online music store until it was acquired by Rhapsody from Best Buy on December 1, 2011.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster
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Larry Lucido: What’s a Napster?
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Napster started the illegal file sharing revolution, or at least made it go mainstream, in the late 1990’s. It was gobbled up by Rhapsody (Real Networks) and now charges a few per download.
Well, when I was young it was the Naval Academy Prepatory School established to prepare young sailors for the rigors that they will encounter at Annapolis. Those who attended that school were called Napsters.
A company based upon reproducing the intellectual property of others without paying, and calling it “sharing.”