MARTÍNEZ: But on June 1, 1999, Napster was born - peer-to-peer file-sharing. My music collection can be yours with the click of a button. By the end of that summer, labels were freaking out.

A round the turn of the century, Napster was the place for online file sharing (or piracy, as the music industry would call ...

In 1999, a groundbreaking site launched that felt too good to be true. And that’s because it was. Sam Altman should take note ...

In brief: Ownership of Napster is changing hands once again. The company, which started life as a peer-to-peer file sharing service more than 25 years ago, is being purchased by Infinite Reality ...

Napster was launched in 1999 by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker and quickly became the first significant peer-to-peer file-sharing application. It shuttered in the early 2000s after the record ...

A quarter century ago, Napster was notorious on the internet for allowing people to swap songs for free, long before the music industry had come up with a model for the digital age. The service ...

TL;DR: Napster, initially a peer-to-peer file-sharing program launched in 1999, became famous for sharing MP3s but faced legal issues for copyright infringement. After bankruptcy, it transformed ...

On Tuesday, Napster was acquired by 3D technology company Infinite Reality for $207 million. Infinite Reality CEO John Acunto told CNBC in an interview that the one-time file-sharing phenomenon ...