Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The reality wasn't as black and white as that. Napster may have ultimately bitten the dust after filing for bankruptcy following ...

Napster was a file-sharing service that allowed users to download music tracks for free. The recording industry sued to have Napster shut down, and the company went into bankruptcy in 2002. Napster ...

At the end of the 1990s, as technology improved and internet access soared, the online realm opened up like a new frontier, full of untold possibility and peril. For purveyors of creative media, it ...

Heavy metal rock band Metallica has sued three universities and Napster — whose software lets users trade music files on the Internet — for allegedly encouraging students to pirate the band's music.

One of the first viral videos I remember getting in my inbox was the "Napster Bad" cartoon back in 2000. Man, did it make Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield look like assholes. Oh course, they were ...

BRITNEY SPEARS: (Singing) Oh, baby, baby. MARTÍNEZ: Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, Shania Twain. In 1999, album sales were at their absolute peak. Steve Knopper follows the industry for ...

BRITNEY SPEARS: (Singing) Oh, baby, baby. MARTÍNEZ: Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, Shania Twain. In 1999, album sales were at their absolute peak. Steve Knopper follows the industry for ...