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I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world.
Jeffrey Katzenberg / Businessman
Napster
Difficult Time
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I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.
Curtis Jackson / Rapper
Music Business
Napster
Sean
Business Music Music Business
Damaged
Parker
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Napster works because people who love music share and participate.
Shawn Fanning / Programmer
Music Love
Napster
People
Share
Love Music People
Works
Participate
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Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.
Dan Farmer /
Copyright
Napster
Violation
Business Model
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The battle over Napster has divided musicians and industry officials.
Parker Conrad /
Battle
Divided
Napster
Officials
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Ever since Napster I've dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify.
Sean Parker / Entrepreneur
Building
Napster
Spotify
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I hate to say Napster kind of killed our business, but what can I tell ya?
Frank Stallone / Actor
Hate
Kind
Napster
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This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.
Morgan Freeman / Actor
Kids
Napster
Protection
Content
None
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I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.
Dave Rowntree / Musician
Challenges
Evidence
Napster
Record Companies
Records
Due
Penny
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I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.
Michael Moore / Filmmaker
Band
Napster
Rock Bands
Rocks
Thinking
Concept
Fought
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Back before Napster and Spotify, we toured to promote record sales. Now we make records to promote tour dates.
James Mcmurtry / Singer-Songwriter
Napster
Records
Spotify
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I think that Napster is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Napster, to me, is liberation and freedom for artists.
Krs-One / Rapper
Bread
Invention
Liberation
Napster
Artists
Sliced
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I think that's what happened to the record business when 'Napster' came around. The industry rejected what was happening instead of accepting it as change.
Jay-Z / Rapper
Business
Industry
Napster
Rejected
Came
Happening
Instead
Record
Record Business
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Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.
Chad Hurley / Executive
Illegal
Napster
Ninety Nine
Music People Black
Cent
Music Black People
Downloading
Per
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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
Lars Ulrich / Drummer
Available
Napster
Permission
Became
Catalog
Simply
Hijacked
Our Music
Sought
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The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster.
Darl Mcbride / Entrepreneur
Running
Broken
Napster
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When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.
David Boies / Lawyer
Important
Music Industry
Napster
Thinking
Music Me Internet
Case
First Thing
Struck
The First Thing
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Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.
David Boies / Lawyer
Activity
Copyright
Infringement
Liability
Napster
Users
Vicarious
Alleged
Engage
Sharing
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
Barry Diller / Television Actor
Distribution
Models
Music Industry
Napster
New Business
Basis
Direction
Pointed
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Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money.
Hilary Rosen /
Losing
Napster
Relevant
Thinking
Essentially
Legally
Morally
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I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Beautiful
Collaboration
Hardware
Ideas
Napster
Software
Thinking
Beautiful Thing
Distributed
Engine
Per
Lately
Most Beautiful
Most Beautiful Thing
Uses
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Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it. You know, so we start to see our decisions, our opportunities, our every choice is a consumer choice.
Douglas Rushkoff / Writer
Napster
Revolt
Consumer
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Back when Napster first came along, I started telling everybody Napster was like shooting yourself in the foot because you're stealing music. The record companies don't pay for us to make records - the bands do.
Butch Trucks /
Napster
Record Companies
Shooting
Stealing
Foot
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I have mixed feelings about Napster. I like what it can do for an unsigned band. It can help them sell 10,000 records. But for an established artist, there's already so much piracy around. They need to regulate it.
Shaggy / Singer
Mixed Feelings
Napster
Piracy
Established
Mixed
Regulate
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Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
Al Gore / Former Vice President Of The United States
Imagination
Creativity
Democracy
Democratic
Framework
Napster
People
Software
Democracy Political People
Version
Constitutional
Harnessing
Our People
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When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.
Will.i.am / Rapper
Girl
Dell
Google
Guy
Instagram
Left
Microsoft
Napster
Thinking
Behind
Facebook
Guys
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It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.
Courtney Love / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Cash
Fun
Games
Labels
Napster
Radical
Revolutionary
Anyway
Time Game Believe
Major
Musicians
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I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.
Shawn Fanning / Programmer
Audio
Data
Files
Media
Mp3
Napster
Obvious
Thinking
Users
People See Media
People Media See
Different Types
Evolving
Locate
Retrieve
Specific
Types
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With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.
Ian Mackaye / Singer
Greed
Labels
Napster
People
Share
Concerns
Exploit
Major
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I grew up in Mountain Pine, Arkansas. You get no more country than where I grew up. But I also grew up in the Napster / iTunes / Spotify/ iHeart Radio era, and so I see that everything is influenced by everything else, and that's what country music is now.
Bobby Bones /
Arkansas
Itunes
Mountain
Napster
Spotify
Country Music
Everything Else
Influenced
Pine
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Starting in the mid-1990s, the end-to-end ubiquity of the Internet, combined with its cheapness, spontaneously combusted to give us Napster - a site that revolutionized the music industry overnight. We got P2P file swapping in the film and TV industry as well.
Max Keiser / Broadcaster
Music Industry
Napster
Site
Combined
File
Overnight
Revolutionized
Spontaneously
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Spotify appeared nine years after Napster, the pioneering file-sharing service, which unleashed piracy on the record business and began the cataclysm that caused worldwide revenues to decline from a peak of twenty-seven billion dollars in 1999 to fifteen billion in 2013.
John Seabrook / Journalist
Decline
Dollars
Fifteen
Napster
Nine
Pioneering
Spotify
Unleashed
Caused
Appeared
Began
Billion
Billion Dollars
Record
Peak
Record Business
Revenues
Service
Worldwide
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I've watched the dynamics of music completely change to where we've sold tapes, we've sold CDs, then everything started becoming 'music is free' now. In a perfect world, Napster wouldn't have come along. But the world isn't perfect, and when it changes, you have to adapt.
Chamillionaire / Rapper
Cds
Dynamics
Napster
Change Music World
Adapt
Perfect World
Sold
Tapes
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Napster is great so long as they put out tracks on there that have been officially released. I don't really mind people downloading my music; I also see it as a compliment. And if you are a real music lover, you want to have the original CD anyway 'cause then you feel more connected to the artist.
Tiesto / Dj
Artist
Compliment
Connected
Music Lover
Napster
Anyway
Original
Cause
Lover
Downloading
Officially
Released
Tracks
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There are those who say the music industry must adapt to a wired world. They point to the decades-long rise in CD prices, even as manufacturing costs came down, and to data that shows Napster may actually increase sales of CDs by music-hungry customers as evidence that the music industry is simply afraid of a new technology.
Parker Conrad /
Data
Manufacturing
Music Industry
Napster
New Technology
Adapt
Cd
Prices
Sales
Wired
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