Napster: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Contributory and Vicarious Liability for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Services- The Napster and Grokster cases. Aug 12, 2026
Add new Web site: NPR - Napster Β— the file-sharing service Β— helped to disrupt the record industry. May 19, 2026
Add new Web site: Paw Research Center - The State of Music Online: Ten Years After Napster. Sep 13, 2025
Add new Web site: Journal of Human Sciences - Copyright and the Internet: The case of Napster (PDF). Jul 05, 2025
Add new Web site: University of the Pacific Libraries - Scholarly Commons - The Napster Case: The Whole World is Listening (PDF). Mar 01, 2025
Add new Web site: UC Irvine School of Social Sciences - Copyright vs. Napster: The File Sharing Revolution (PDF). Jan 17, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Wisconsin-La Crosse - The Napster Phenomenon: Turning the Music Industry Upside Down (PDF). Dec 07, 2024
Add new Web site: BBC - Napster turns 20: How it changed the music industry. Aug 23, 2024
Add new Web site: Scholarship Repository at The University of Minnesota Law School - Napster: Facilitation of Sharing, or Contributory and Vicarious Copyright Infringement? Jun 25, 2024
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Contributory and Vicarious Liability for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Services- The Napster and Grokster cases. May 18, 2024
Add new Web site: NPR - Napster: The File-Sharing Service That Started It All? Dec 29, 2023
Add new Web site: Lifewire - A Short History of Napster. Oct 20, 2023
Add new Web site: Official Site of Napster. Sep 22, 2022
Add new Web site: Official Site of Napster. Sep 22, 2022
Article revised and updated. Feb 08, 2022
Add new Web site: Computer Hope - Napster. Apr 06, 2018
Add new Web site: History of Computers - Napster Guide: History, Origin, and More. Oct 26, 2017
Removed media. Aug 28, 2017
Added screenshot of the online home page of Napster. Apr 29, 2011
New article added. Dec 08, 2009
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