Tag: NAPSTER

Today Google TV got its own website to call home. While largely an exercise in marketing hype, the new site offers the first serious glimpse of Google TV apps in action. You'll be able to get your social network on, thanks to an official Twitter app, but more exciting are the apps offered by content partners that blur the line between Web and television. The 'NBA Game Time' app, for instance, ...

Spotify must overcome yet another hurdle before it can bring free music streaming to U.S. devices. According to a report from Billboard, negotiations between the service and major music labels have gone "back to square one." Insiders, in general, have two divergent theories as to what held back the talks. Some claim that Spotify is insistent upon implementing a carbon copy of its European model, ...

With the decade coming to a close in less than two months, expect to see plenty of "Best of" lists. It's awful fun to think back on marquee moments from years past, especially when those moments occurred on our beloved Internet. Plus, it's shocking to recall just how much the Web has changed since the start of the millennium. In that spirit, the Webby Awards has released its list of "The Ten Most ...

Metallica hasn't exactly made many friends online with its numerous seemingly anti-Internet moves over the years. Back in the halcyon days of Napster, the band made many enemies by personally investigating downloaders of its music, and then recently recently got pissy when bloggers dared to post their impressions of the band's latest work online after being invited in for a pre-release listening ...

Shawn Fanning (pictured, above) is, in many ways, the man who started the decline of the music industry. Back in the late '90s while still a college student, he created Napster, the peer-to-peer file sharing service that allowed millions of users to swap illegal copies of music quickly and easily. More importantly, his invention got people thinking about the value of recorded music and ...

For many, the name Napster still evokes memories of the carefree early days of music downloading, when songs were free and illegal, but nobody seemed to mind. Those days, of course, didn't last long, with the service being effectively shut down by pressure from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It was later re-launched as a legal download service, but never quite regained the ...