If you thought the Napster peer-to-peer music sharing platform was long since toast, a new $207 million deal says otherwise. Turns out the brand has been bought and will be reborn as a metaverse-based platform with which musicians will connect their melodic wares to fans. Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is something of a turn around for a brand that arguably introduced the idea of mass music piracy to the mainstream.
Perhaps just as surprising is the revelation, of sorts, that Napster has been ticking along as a legit music streaming platform since 2016. More on that in a moment.
