Difference between revisions of "Napster"
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[http://www.napster.com Napster] was developped in May 1999 by [http://www.time.com/time/poy2000/pwm/fanning.html Shawn Fanning] for people to share music files over the his school's network. The program turned into a real phenomena and turned [http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/techinf/layer3 MP3] into a standard digutal music format.<br> | [http://www.napster.com Napster] was developped in May 1999 by [http://www.time.com/time/poy2000/pwm/fanning.html Shawn Fanning] for people to share music files over the his school's network. The program turned into a real phenomena and turned [http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/techinf/layer3 MP3] into a standard digutal music format.<br> | ||
| − | [http://www.napster.com Napster] came under legal trouble | + | [http://www.napster.com Napster] came under legal trouble and it's central server was shut down by court order due to copyrighted material being shared on it's network. |
The program was bought by [http://www.bertelsmann.com Bertelsmann AG (BMG)] and is undergoing a new commercial stragety. | The program was bought by [http://www.bertelsmann.com Bertelsmann AG (BMG)] and is undergoing a new commercial stragety. | ||
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[http://www.napster.com Napster]'s concept has inspired a whole generation of file-sharing applications. | [http://www.napster.com Napster]'s concept has inspired a whole generation of file-sharing applications. | ||
| − | An open source project, [[OpenNapster]], is being nowadays | + | An open source project, [[OpenNapster]], is being nowadays actively developped in order to continue the [http://www.napster.com Napster] saga. |
| − | '''NOTE:''' [[aMule]] is a '''separate''' project and is '''not''' related to [http://www.napster.com Napster] in any way. | + | '''NOTE:''' [[aMule]] is a '''separate''' project and is '''not''' related to [http://www.napster.com Napster] in any way. More over, [[aMule]] does '''not''' support this protocol. |
Latest revision as of 22:05, 17 July 2005
Napster was developped in May 1999 by Shawn Fanning for people to share music files over the his school's network. The program turned into a real phenomena and turned MP3 into a standard digutal music format.
Napster came under legal trouble and it's central server was shut down by court order due to copyrighted material being shared on it's network.
The program was bought by Bertelsmann AG (BMG) and is undergoing a new commercial stragety.
Napster's concept has inspired a whole generation of file-sharing applications.
An open source project, OpenNapster, is being nowadays actively developped in order to continue the Napster saga.
NOTE: aMule is a separate project and is not related to Napster in any way. More over, aMule does not support this protocol.
