Napster

A Web site that facilitated the free exchange of digital music through the Internet .

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Napster became a symbol of the highly significant battle over the concept of intellectual property rights as it applies to the Internet .

I was the kid making a tidy profit burning CDs for all my friends at two bucks a pop back during the Napster heyday in 2000.

But 15 years after Napster, we are still in the Dark Ages of online music.

To the musicians, the Napster co-founders were outright thieves, providing an avenue to steal music without paying a dime for it.

So when I first heard about Napster, I thought it was something for computer nerds.

The RIAA would have been fools not to have brought that initial lawsuit against Napster.

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