Napster

English Etymology Named after Napster, a file-sharing system (not itself a website) that facilitated the copying of copyrighted MP3 audio files, itself named after a nickname of its creator Shawn Fanning, referring to his nappy-textured hair; hence en nap ster. Noun en Internet Any website that facilitates free distribution of data. en July 12, 2004 Yukos Offers $8 Billion To Cover Its Tax Bill New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/12/business/business-digest-273970.html Some in the used-book industry are questioning whether Amazon.com is becoming the Napster of the book business. https://web.archive.org/web/20250124160814/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/12/business/business-digest-273970.html 24 January 2025 en October 15, 2007 Video Napster? Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/video-napster-113493 It would be easy to call the venture-backed, San Mateo-based YouTube the Napster of video, an outlaw startup rocketing onto dotcom radar screens on the backs of rights-holders. But that's a designation that the year-old company desperately wants to avoid. https://web.archive.org/web/20220430034659/https://www.newsweek.com/video-napster-113493 30 April 2022 en 26 May 19 Dan Cohen https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/college-students-arent-checking-out-books/590305/ The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper The Atlantic In many fields, we now have the equivalent of Spotify for research: vast databases that help scholars search millions of articles and connect them—often through highly restrictive and increasingly unsustainable subscriptions, but that is another story—instantly to digital copies. (There is also a Napster for research articles, of which we shall not speak.) https://web.archive.org/web/20260823011150/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/college-students-arent-checking-out-books/590305/ 23 August 2026 Verb To download from Napster. en 27 Feb 01 grady slashdot does the math for the RIAA alt.music.chapel-hill https://groups.google.com/g/alt.music.chapel-hill/c/ZdTqBXh7q48/m/HPbgx9x4qqsJ I have done my part this year by buying fewer albums than in any year since, um, 1982 I think it was. No, I haven't been Napstering them, either. I'm catching up to my backlog of listening, listening to the radio, and most-of-all spending a lot of time with demos of friends' bands, and with the tapes I make of my live show every week. en 22 Nov 06 Greg Goss The grand parade of lifeless packaging alt.fan.cecil-adams https://groups.google.com/g/alt.fan.cecil-adams/c/qfIMv4UrnMU/m/K_9_3hfhutIJ I've got the first four albums on vinyl. Nothing on CD, other than a few "napstered" songs. To upload to or as if to Napster. en 20 Apr 01 Ttuerff How Can You Kiss Me/Just A Little Love alt.music.monkees https://groups.google.com/g/alt.music.monkees/c/5GCs-ossSs4/m/rIkBJpwsYYkJ Anyway, I noticed recently that somebody had Napstered the song, and I presume that tapes of the single were floating around long before the internet. en 22 Dec 05 19th century nuthouses Odd Google Logo Today??? 24hoursupport.helpdesk https://groups.google.com/g/24hoursupport.helpdesk/c/DfRY9735jDM/m/36SDHQesM4UJ Google does the "Napstering"-sharing of public and copyrighted materials they take possession of, online. They are pigs, fascists, as that's what fascists do: take all books in the world, for free, and add sponsor links to the public materials. To shut down, especially for copyright infringement, as Napster was. en 21 May 05 Michael K. Edwards Bug#310994: ITP: openttd -- open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" linux.debian.legal https://groups.google.com/g/linux.debian.legal/c/2PXSj3QfK6U/m/Tn2d3y5kiU0J Don't get me wrong. I am not interested in making that case myself with regard to Debian. On the contrary; I don't want to see Debian get Napstered. Putting obviously infringing stuff onto the mirror network is just begging for trouble. It's not like it's that hard for people to set up their own repositories; let them gamble with their own assets. en 14 Sep 06 James McGrath YouTube bit.listserv.blues-l https://groups.google.com/g/bit.listserv.blues-l/c/pdQEFoQfKXY/m/_vaBSPxFerIJ If you find Youtube as fascinating as I do you may want to step up the searches & viewing since it seems they may be "napstered" in the future. Anagrams en aenprst panters trepans pantser Panters parents entraps Partens pretans pastern arpents persant en Websites en eponyms