Download Napster Logo — Napster was a file distribution service to music in PDF format ( MP3 ), the first major network P2P exchange created by Shawn Fanning . Its popularity began during the year 1998 . Its technology allowed music fans to share their collections of MP3 easily with others, which led the protests of the institutions that protect copyright .

The service was named Napster (“siestero”) by the pen name of Fanning (said to be used much sleep nap). The first version of Napster was published in late 1999 . It was the first system file sharing between pairs of mass popularity, and was a centralized network as a primary server used to maintain the list of connected users and files shared by each of them. File transfers, however, were made ​​between users without intermediaries.

In December of 1999 , several record companies filed a lawsuit against Napster. This brought Napster tremendous popularity and millions of new users. Napster peaked at 26.4 million users in February of the year 2001 . For fans of Napster trial was confusing. For them the ability to share files was a feature of Internet, not Napster, which acted simply as a search engine. Many argued that Napster only get close to its users migrated to other file sharing systems. This latest incident occurred, with software such as Ares Galaxy , Audiogalaxy , Morpheus , Gnutella , Kazaa , eMule , LimeWire and eDonkey2000 .

In July of 2001 a judge ordered the closure of Napster servers to prevent further copyright violations. By the 24 September of 2001 , had practically come to an end. Napster agreed to pay record companies $ 26 million in damages and another 10 million for future licensing. The drummer of Metallica , Lars Ulrich was the first famous in suing Napster for copyright.

On May 19th of 2008 Napster announced the launch of the store’s largest and most detailed of MP3 in the world with 6 million songs,free.napster.com . The notice also indicated that all download sales in the United States will now be made ​​with Napster format MP3 . On December 1, 2011 merged with Rhapsody Napster.

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