Napster's facilitation of illegal activity raised the ire of several major recording companies, who almost immediately — in December 1999 — filed a lawsuit against the popular service,[4] already called a "a huge grassroots effort" by MP3 Newswire.[5] The service would only get bigger as the trial, meant to shut down Napster, also gave it a great deal of publicity. Soon millions of users, many of t ...

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After a $2.4 million offer by the Private Media Group, an "adult entertainment company",[9] Napster's brand and logos were acquired at bankruptcy auction by the company Roxio, Inc. which used them to rebrand the Pressplay music service as Napster 2.0. As of 2005, this new service has met with moderate success. Although the central servers used by Napster made it a convenient legal target, the record industry failed to capitalize on the power vacuum l ...

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Motivated by a friend of his who was having difficulties accessing the MP3 files he wanted, Fanning spent months of little sleep writing the code for a program that could provide an easy way to download music. He developed the program while attending Boston's Northeastern University. He made the cover of Wired magazine and rose to fame, yet soon after, Napster was the target of several music industry backed lawsuits, which ultimately ended up causing the cessation of the service. Since November 2002, the Napster name an ...

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Shawn Fanning, Shawn Fanning - Napster, Shawn Fanning - Snocap

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Shawn Fanning along with volunteer Sean Parker first released the original Napster in June of 1999. Fanning wanted an easier method of finding music than by searching IRC or Lycos. John Fanning of Hull, Massachusetts, who is Shawn's uncle, ran all aspects of the company's operations for the first year from their office on Nantasket beach. The final agreement gave Shawn 30% control of the company, with the rest going to his uncle. It was the first of the massively popular peer-to-peer file sharing systems, although it was not fully peer-to-pe ...

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Shawn Fanning along with volunteer Sean Parker first released the original Napster in June of 1999. Fanning wanted an easier method of finding music than by searching IRC or Lycos. John Fanning of Hull, Massachusetts, who is Shawn's uncle, ran all aspects of the company's operations for the first year from their office on Nantasket beach. The final agreement gave Shawn 30% control of the company, with the rest going to his uncle. It was the first of the massively popular peer-to-peer file sharing systems, although it was not fully peer-to-pe ...

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Napster, Napster - Origins, Napster - Legal challenges, Napster - Shutdown, Napster - Promotional power, Napster - Current status, Napster - References in Anglo-American popular culture

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The Napster To Go model (a.k.a. "Napster 3.0"), launched quietly in late 2004 (Pressrelease), was introduced as a second pricing tier at $14.95/month. It maintains the subscription model and permits the users to transfer an unlimited number of songs to their own devices provided they are "Napster To Go compatible". These songs can be listened to only while the Napster subscription is active; if customers terminate their subscriptions, they will no longer be able to listen to the songs. T ...

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Napster pay service, Napster pay service - History, Napster pay service - Introduction, Napster pay service - New focus, Napster pay service - Napster To Go, Napster pay service - Success, Napster pay service - Sources

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Roxio bought the assets of the original Napster company at its bankruptcy auction in 2002 and the online music service called pressplay in 2003, with the intention of using these assets as the basis of a new legal online music service that would let users access music through a subscription or on a fee-per-song basis—and thus giving the record companies and the artists/composers (or their estates) the royalties they had been asking for. This service was confusingly dubbed "Napster 2.0", despite the fact that the original Napster Inc ...

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Napster pay service, Napster pay service - History, Napster pay service - Introduction, Napster pay service - New focus, Napster pay service - Napster To Go, Napster pay service - Success, Napster pay service - Sources

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Metallica - The Early Days. Metallica was formed in Downey, California in 1981 by drummer and former tennis prodigy Lars Ulrich and guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield from Downey, California, who met after each had separately placed classified advertisements in the American publication The Recycler. Bassist Ron McGovney, also from Downey, was an original member, and the band used a few transient guitar players, such as Brad Parker and Jeff Warner, in the course of settling on a four-person lineup. Metallica go ...

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Metallica, Metallica - History, Metallica - The Early Days, Metallica - Mainstream Success, Metallica - The Alternative Era, Metallica - Napster controversy, Metallica - Newsted leaves, Metallica - A New Beginning, Metallica - Line-ups, Metallica - Temporary live members, Metallica - Discography, Metallica - Main albums, Metallica - Individual songs, Metallica - DVD & Video, Metallica - Chart singles, Metallica - Audio, Metallica - Awards, Metallica - Other Info, Metallica - Trivia, Metallica - Name Usage

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Metallica - The early days. Metallica was formed in Downey, California in 1981 by drummer and former tennis prodigy Lars Ulrich and guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, who met after each had separately placed classified advertisements in the American publication The Recycler. Bassist Ron McGovney was an original member, and the band used a few transient guitar players, such as Brad Parker and Jeff Warner. Their first session played was in Lars Ulrich's garage. At that time there were only three members, Lars U ...

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Metallica, Metallica - History, Metallica - The early days, Metallica - Mainstream success, Metallica - The alternative era, Metallica - Napster controversy, Metallica - Newsted leaves, Metallica - A new beginning, Metallica - Line-ups, Metallica - Temporary live members, Metallica - People who almost joined, Metallica - Discography, Metallica - Main albums, Metallica - Individual songs, Metallica - DVDs and videos, Metallica - Chart singles, Metallica - Audio, Metallica - Awards, Metallica - Other info, Metallica - Trivia, Metallica - Name usage

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Copyright is actually a collection of legal rules. Typically, copyright statutes confer a bundle of legal rights on the author or proprietor of a work (writing, a musical composition, or an image), including the exclusive right to make copies of the work, subject to the fair use. In the United States, the Constitution grants Congress power to confer exclusive rights upon authors to their writings, and Congress has exercised that power in a comprehensive statutory scheme, codified in Title 17 of the United States Code. Legal rules carr ...

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Copynorms, Copynorms - Copyrights and copynorms, Copynorms - Socially acceptable violations of copyright law, Copynorms - Empirical research on copynorms, Copynorms - What causes weak copynorms?, Copynorms - Implications for the law, Copynorms - Bibliography

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In the late 1990s and early in the 2000s, peer-to-peer filesharing over the Internet became increasingly popular. The first P2P program to receive widespread attention in the media and popular consciousness was Napster. After the Napster service was shut down by an injunction issued by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, a variety of other P2P (Gnutella, Bearshare, KaZaA, etc.) programs became popular. Perhaps the most significant use of P2P programs involves the distribution of MP3 files created by ripping copyrighted music from a commercial Compact Disc. The use o ...

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Copynorms, Copynorms - Copyrights and copynorms, Copynorms - Socially acceptable violations of copyright law, Copynorms - Empirical research on copynorms, Copynorms - What causes weak copynorms?, Copynorms - Implications for the law, Copynorms - Bibliography

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1981 - First recording lineup (Version of "Hit the Lights" for Metal Massacre compliation) Lars Ulrich (Drums) James Hetfield (Vocals; rhythm and bass guitars) Lloyd Grant (Lead guitar) 1982 - Early lineup 1 (No Life 'Til Leather demo) James Hetfield (Vocals, rhythm guitar) Dave Mustaine (Lead guitar, vocals) Ron McGovney (Bass guita ...

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Metallica, Metallica - History, Metallica - The Early Days, Metallica - Mainstream Success, Metallica - The Alternative Era, Metallica - Napster controversy, Metallica - Newsted leaves, Metallica - A New Beginning, Metallica - Line-ups, Metallica - Temporary live members, Metallica - Discography, Metallica - Main albums, Metallica - Individual songs, Metallica - DVD & Video, Metallica - Chart singles, Metallica - Audio, Metallica - Awards, Metallica - Other Info, Metallica - Trivia, Metallica - Name Usage

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Metallica - Main albums. (All album sales are based on U.S. totals. Worldwide, Metallica has sold over 200 million albums.) Outside of the USA and Canada, Metallica's recorded works are released by Vertigo/Universal. Metallica - Individual songs. "I Disappear", for the Mission: Impossible II soundtrack (MCA). "We Did It Again" (ft. rapper Ja Rule), for the Biker Boyz soundtrack "53rd and 3rd" (A Ramones cover), for "We're A Happy Family: A ...

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Metallica, Metallica - History, Metallica - The Early Days, Metallica - Mainstream Success, Metallica - The Alternative Era, Metallica - Napster controversy, Metallica - Newsted leaves, Metallica - A New Beginning, Metallica - Line-ups, Metallica - Temporary live members, Metallica - Discography, Metallica - Main albums, Metallica - Individual songs, Metallica - DVD & Video, Metallica - Chart singles, Metallica - Audio, Metallica - Awards, Metallica - Other Info, Metallica - Trivia, Metallica - Name Usage

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On October 27, 2003, just 48 hours prior to the official launch of Napster 2.0, Napster posted a press release on their website stating that starting in November, people can buy Napster gift cards for $14.85 from Safeway, Rite Aid, CompUSA, Best Buy, and ExxonMobil. This card will have a scratch-off surface that will reveal a unique PIN that can be used with Napster 2.0 to give 15 credits for permanent download of music from the Napster 2.0 service. In another press release Microsoft announced that its new Windows XP Media Center Edition 200 ...

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Napster pay service, Napster pay service - History, Napster pay service - Introduction, Napster pay service - New focus, Napster pay service - Napster To Go, Napster pay service - Success, Napster pay service - Sources

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Metallica has won seven Grammy Awards: 1989: Best Metal Performance - "One" 1991: Best Metal Performance - "Stone Cold Crazy" 1992: Best Metal Performance With Vocal - Metallica 1999: Best Metal Performance - "Better than You" 2000: Best Hard Rock Performance - "Whiskey in the Jar" 2001: Best Rock Instrumental Performance - "The Call of Ktulu" 2004: Best Metal Performance - "St. Anger" Kerrang! Awards: 2003: Best Band On The Planet 2004: Best Band On The Planet ...

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Metallica, Metallica - History, Metallica - The Early Days, Metallica - Mainstream Success, Metallica - The Alternative Era, Metallica - Napster controversy, Metallica - Newsted leaves, Metallica - A New Beginning, Metallica - Line-ups, Metallica - Temporary live members, Metallica - Discography, Metallica - Main albums, Metallica - Individual songs, Metallica - DVD & Video, Metallica - Chart singles, Metallica - Audio, Metallica - Awards, Metallica - Other Info, Metallica - Trivia, Metallica - Name Usage

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Metallica - Trivia. Ennio Morricone is the composer of the song "The Ecstasy of Gold" which Metallica uses on its intro tape to open their live shows. The song is from the Clint Eastwood movie, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. It is performed in its own right on S&M - Symphony & Metallica. Their song "St. Anger" was the official theme song of WWE's SummerSlam pay-per-view event in August 2003. Bay Area Metallibangers are Metallica fans from the Bay Are ...

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Metallica, Metallica - History, Metallica - The Early Days, Metallica - Mainstream Success, Metallica - The Alternative Era, Metallica - Napster controversy, Metallica - Newsted leaves, Metallica - A New Beginning, Metallica - Line-ups, Metallica - Temporary live members, Metallica - Discography, Metallica - Main albums, Metallica - Individual songs, Metallica - DVD & Video, Metallica - Chart singles, Metallica - Audio, Metallica - Awards, Metallica - Other Info, Metallica - Trivia, Metallica - Name Usage

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1981 - First recording lineup (Version of "Hit the Lights" for Metal Massacre compliation) Lars Ulrich (Drums, Percussion) James Hetfield (Vocals, Rhythm and Bass Guitars) Lloyd Grant (Lead Guitar) 1982 - Early lineup 1 (No Life 'Till Leather demo) James Hetfield (Vocals, Rhythm Guitar) Dave Mustaine (Lead Guitar, Vocals) Ron McGovney (Bass Guitar) ...

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Metallica, Metallica - History, Metallica - The early days, Metallica - Mainstream success, Metallica - The alternative era, Metallica - Napster controversy, Metallica - Newsted leaves, Metallica - A new beginning, Metallica - Line-ups, Metallica - Temporary live members, Metallica - People who almost joined, Metallica - Discography, Metallica - Main albums, Metallica - Individual songs, Metallica - DVDs and videos, Metallica - Chart singles, Metallica - Audio, Metallica - Awards, Metallica - Other info, Metallica - Trivia, Metallica - Name usage

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Metallica - Main albums. (All album sales are based on U.S. totals. Worldwide, Metallica have sold over 200 million albums.) Outside of the USA and Canada, Metallica's recorded works are released by Vertigo/Universal. Metallica - Individual songs. "I Disappear", for the Mission: Impossible II soundtrack (MCA). "We Did It Again" (ft. rapper Ja Rule), for the Biker Boyz soundtrack "53rd and 3rd" & "Commando" (both Ramones covers) for "We' ...

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Metallica, Metallica - History, Metallica - The early days, Metallica - Mainstream success, Metallica - The alternative era, Metallica - Napster controversy, Metallica - Newsted leaves, Metallica - A new beginning, Metallica - Line-ups, Metallica - Temporary live members, Metallica - People who almost joined, Metallica - Discography, Metallica - Main albums, Metallica - Individual songs, Metallica - DVDs and videos, Metallica - Chart singles, Metallica - Audio, Metallica - Awards, Metallica - Other info, Metallica - Trivia, Metallica - Name usage

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Metallica has won seven Grammy Awards: 1989: Best Metal Performance - "One" 1991: Best Metal Performance - "Stone Cold Crazy" 1992: Best Metal Performance With Vocal - Metallica 1999: Best Metal Performance - "Better than You" 2000: Best Hard Rock Performance - "Whiskey in the Jar" 2001: Best Rock Instrumental Performance - "The Call of Ktulu" 2004: Best Metal Performance - "St. Anger" Kerrang! awards: 2003: Best Band On The Planet 2004: Best Band On The Planet ...

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Metallica, Metallica - History, Metallica - The early days, Metallica - Mainstream success, Metallica - The alternative era, Metallica - Napster controversy, Metallica - Newsted leaves, Metallica - A new beginning, Metallica - Line-ups, Metallica - Temporary live members, Metallica - People who almost joined, Metallica - Discography, Metallica - Main albums, Metallica - Individual songs, Metallica - DVDs and videos, Metallica - Chart singles, Metallica - Audio, Metallica - Awards, Metallica - Other info, Metallica - Trivia, Metallica - Name usage

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