napster

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English - Turkish
internette online müzik servisi
İnternet üzerinde çevrimiçi müzik servisi
English - English
A website which facilitates free distribution of data
Napster is an online music service
File-sharing program Napster introduced P2P networking to millions of users, and made free, downloadable music both a reality and an expectation in mainstream consumerism Napster was introduced in 1999, ceased operations two years later in the wake of litigation, and re-launched in early 2002 as a subscription service
The file sharing software commonly used to exchange (often illegal) MP3 files
A computer program enabling easy access to MP3 files
A peer-to-peer file-sharing format developed to trade mass amounts of music files over the Internet Lawsuits forced the original version to be shut down, but the Napster technology is set to re-emerge as a subscription-based service
A program and an Internet service for sharing MP3 music files with other users on the Internet The Napster company maintains a database of all the users and all the MP3 files they have and thus allows you to retrieve copies of these files from other user's PCs while they are connected to the Internet Of course, they can retrieve MP3 files from your PC also
napster

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    () Named after Napster, a file-sharing system that facilitated the copying of copyrighted MP3s, itself named after a nickname of its creator Shawn Fanning.
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