Napster, the controversial but groundbreaking file-sharing platform, will no longer allow users to stream music.

Digital Music News reported on a splash screen shown to users announcing that “Napster is no longer a music streaming service”.

Seemingly every couple of months, Twitter lights up with (very important) conversations about how little artists actually get paid every time their song gets streamed. It varies between streaming ...

Napster’s partnership with Edel Music represented a desperate attempt to retrofit negotiation capability onto a platform ...

In 2000, Metallica famously sued Napster for copyright infringement. The heavy metal outfit not only asked for its entire catalog to be removed from Napster, but requested that about 330,00 users who ...

If Napster Inc. goes out of business, it will leave two legacies: a dazzling invention that allowed millions to swap music over the Internet and one of the biggest botched financial opportunities of ...

Fifteen years ago today, the recorded music industry landed what turned out to be a death blow to Napster. It secured a federal court decision that found the Internet file-sharing service -- which ...

Music executives rebuffed Napster's offer to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit Wednesday, saying it didn't offer a viable business model and failed to address concerns over the security of ...

Napster's big switch from selling Windows Media files wrapped in Microsoft's copyright protection to selling unprotected MP3s is good news for those of us who have been waiting upward of 10 years for ...

Bid to recover $1.3 million in legal fees fails. By Eriq Gardner Back in the stone age, there was this little company called Napster that completely upended the way that people consumed music. The ...