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The Latest Breaking News from Napster

Napster is back and promising music streaming, listening parties, merch and tickets

Napster has been acquired by Infinite Reality, and will gain a new social focus.

What Hi-Fi?

Former music-pirating platform Napster to be reborn rather ironically as a metaverse for musicians to connect with their fans after $207 million deal

The music, ahem, sharing platform that refuses to die.

PC Gamer

Napster is back - again - in a new deal worth $207 million: “Napster revolutionized digital music - we’re ready to do it again”

Thought you’d seen the back of the file sharing service that almost killed music? Think again

MusicRadar

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Napster sold for $207million over 20 years after shutting down

Napster has been sold to immersive technology company Infinite Reality, who are aiming to bring it back as a streaming service and virtual concert space.

Euronews

Napster sold to tech commerce company for $207 million

Napster, a brand that was notoriously connected to music piracy before reemerging as a subscription music service, has been sold to Infinite Reality for $207 million

The Independent UK

I have been an AI researcher for 40 years. What tech giants are doing to book publishing is akin to theft

Companies claim this is ‘fair use’. I think it’s a digital heist

The Guardian - AU

"People characterised both of our bands as being arrogant and cocky." How Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium helped revitalise metal in 2005

How Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine ushered in metal's next generation

Metal Hammer

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“You couldn’t put a bigger band in a smaller room”: The story of the greatest Metallica live album you’ve (probably) never listened to

In 2008, eager to mend fences with fans after the Napster debacle, the biggest band in metal played one of the tiniest shows of their lives

Metal Hammer

Authors strike back against AI stealing their books as licensing startup Created by Humans raises $5.5 million seed round

Created by Humans aim to be the Spotify of publishing.

Fortune

Tech leaders want us to ditch Meta and X, but what are they offering instead?

Entrepreneurs and celebrities want to reclaim social media from billionaires. They hope to raise $30m to grow Bluesky, a social media app, into an ecosystem to rival Meta and X

Evening Standard

"They were absolutely right about it. You see where it went. They were protecting their art, their intellectual property so that some asshole does not come along and take your art”: Anthrax’s Charlie Benante on why Metallica were right

He describes Spotify as “where music goes to die”

MusicRadar

Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante says Metallica were right about Napster and that Spotify is where "music goes to die"

Anthrax and revived Pantera drummer says industry 'fucked us so bad. you'd make more money selling lemonade.'

Metal Hammer

Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba 'wouldn't have a career' without illegal download sites

Chris Carrabba doubts Dashboard Confessional would have had the success they've had without music piracy sites.

BANG Premier

On the Edge by Nate Silver review – the art of risk-taking

From card sharps to crypto traders, a statistician asks what we can learn from the people prepared to gamble everything

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Metal Hammer

“Yes, we sell out – we sell out every seat in the house, every time we play!” 11 times Metallica were accused of ‘selling out’ for ridiculous reasons

Playing acoustic guitars. Making a music video. Getting haircuts?! Here are all the times Metallica incensed heavy metal’s purists.

Tom’s Hardware

Universities list LimeWire, Kazaa, and other defunct software in piracy warning

Spurred by the Higher Education Opportunity Act, which includes anti-piracy measures, American colleges and universities must send warnings like these.

The Guardian - US

From stealing to Spotify: the story behind how music got free

A two-part docuseries looks back at the history of piracy and how the music industry found itself in such a precarious place

The Hindu

A case of established law lagging behind new tech

In this GenAI era, the lawsuit by The New York Times may redefine legal contours around intellectual property rights in the U.S. and establish global precedents

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The Walrus

Why Sunrise Records Is Still Spinning

It survived Napster, iTunes, and streaming. Now the chain is expanding its horizons overseas

PC Gamer

30 things PC Gamer has outlived over the past 30 years

A salute to all the tech, toys, and trends that have fallen since 1993.

Fortune

Napster's new CEO has a big idea for the next phase of music

The new CEO of the once-famous brand says a platform model will disrupt the current access one dominated by Spotify.

Metal Hammer

Corey Taylor says he "completely backed" Metallica and Lars Ulrich's Napster battle: "if more people realized how badly artists were paid, they might say something"

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor backs Metallica's decision to sue Napster back in 2000

Metal Hammer

St Anger at 20: how Metallica's most maligned album saved their career

Metallica were facing oblivion at the turn of the millennium. 20 years ago today, they'd release the album that'd turn their fortunes around - and go down in infamy

Creative Bloq

The future of AI art, according to industry pros

Will AI art destroy jobs, and can it be stopped?

Metal Hammer

AI Lana Del Rey covering Nine Inch Nails' Hurt in the style of Johnny Cash is both exquisitely beautiful and slightly creepy

Could AI pose the biggest threat to the music industry since Napster? Time will tell

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