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4 ways Napster changed the music industry, from streaming to how artists make money
Napster certainly helped sunset the CD ... drive to push AI and the digital music transformation of the early 2000s. "Instead of enabling artists to live off their work, most musicians’ income ...
TECHNOBABBLE: Music streaming options continue to grow
Like most other college kids in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I did a fair amount of downloading songs from Napster. Back ...
Los Angeles Magazine11y
Remember Napster? Somebody Cared Enough to Make a Documentary
Director Alex Winter explores how Napster brought the music industry to its knees 13 years ago, and where all of the players are now. Thanks to VH1, who funded a big portion of Winter’s vision ...
Press Gazette26d
Six things publishers should do now to protect themselves from AI scrapers
Remember Napster? The early 2000s rebel that let us all download music for free and turned the music industry on its head? Well, generative AI might just be today’s Napster for publishers ...
Marketing8mon
Learning from Napster
Napster, and now its clones, is generating all sorts of debates in the press. For example, is what Napster doing legal? The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) says Napster encourages ...
Billboard22d
Napster Faces Backlash From Labels Again — This Time for Late Royalty Payments
By Elias Leight At least half a dozen distributors and record labels are frustrated with the streaming service Napster due to late royalty payments, executives tell Billboard. In some cases ...
Retail Dive8y
Napster looks to compete with the likes of Spotify, Apple Music by leveraging partnerships
Despite its name remaining one of the most loaded terms in Internet history, Napster’s mission to go straight still chugs along, and the now-music streaming service’s latest plays are ...