Napster
Early peer-to-peer file sharing service that allowed users to download music for free, significantly impacting the music industry.
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"Long before Spotify or Napster, music started to become global."
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"I'm really glad you brought up Napster. The way that these technologies always work is you have the people who have, let's say they're 35 plus, they've gotten to a point in their career where this new change is going to be devastating to them."
More from Tom Bilyeu →"The early experiments with okay what are we going to do here is like Napster and then it was like well there should be some type of economics around this, was like iTunes."
More from Jack Conte →"When Napster first started, I met with Sean and Sean when they started because it was so exciting to see people were all downloading music, but it was illegal. You were hoping they'd crack the code on how artists get paid. Before that could even h..."
More from Guy Oseary →"I traced the beginning of social networking to Napster, which Sean Parker started. He worked for me as an intern when he was 16. You remember that first moment that you loaded Napster and it said 4.5 million machines are connected to you right now."
More from Mark Pincus →+2 more mentions from Mark
"That cocktail party for me started with Napster — when all of a sudden all of us were connected to each other and the great lead was a music file."
"I was the first check into Napster because he said we have like two servers and they're full and we need money for more servers."
"I get a lot of credit for seeing that whether it was Napster, MP3s were going to shift the music business from the CD."
More from Steve Stoute →
"Do you remember Napster? Right. So, Napster worked where you could take songs, you could upload them, and anybody could download these songs."
More from Joe Rogan →"And it was because of this history of like understanding music and doing the Napster thing. And then years and years of trying to find the right company that had the was taking the right formula."
More from Scott Nolan →"I remember the first time he talked about what became Napster"
More from Arsenio Hall →"it was really the beginning of Napster and piracy and instead of thinking about, you know, how to move forward into a future, their view was to lock things down"
More from Eddy Cue →"Some people did Napster, some went to like all the ones that came after BitTorrent"
More from Travis Kalanick →"Napster was a bad name. It was the music sharing site. You nap some music, you nap a kid — that sounds like sort of a bad thing to be doing."
"And then that started and then that really put us out put all rock guys in out of business."
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