Definitions
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- proper noun Internet Any
website that facilitates freedistribution ofdata .
Etymologies
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Examples
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SHAWN FANNING, NAPSTER FOUNDER: We will keep fighting for Napster and for your right to share music over the Internet.
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DAVID BOIES, NAPSTER ATTORNEY: What this means is that Napster will be able to continue to service its 20 million users until the court of appeals has made a final decision.
CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Appeals Court Stays Napster Injunction - July 29, 2000 2000
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This is very like how people got around filtering in Napster oh so long ago now.
Boing Boing 2009
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Napster: 10 today, had it survived p2pnet news view | P2P | Music: - Napster is dead.
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“Napster is a descendant of the Roxio music software company that bought the name and cat logo of the pioneering file sharing service that was started by Shawn Fanning and closed by the courts in 2001.”
Best Buy Bails Out Failing Napster - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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I have tried them all and Napster is the best. — wyly
Two Views of Digital Music Subscriptions - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Napster is a descendant of the Roxio music software company that bought the name and cat logo of the pioneering file sharing service that was started by Shawn Fanning and closed by the courts in 2001.
Best Buy Bails Out Failing Napster - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Napster is a descendant of the Roxio music software company that bought the name and cat logo of the pioneering file sharing service that was started by Shawn Fanning and closed by the courts in 2001.
Best Buy Bails Out Failing Napster - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Any big media owner that wants to sue the thing out of existence, a la Napster, is too late and there is no way they could hold together a coalition like before ….
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The name Napster originally belonged to the first widely used Internet file-sharing network, which kicked off the era of widespread digital piracy.
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