Napster was a pioneer in piracy, launching in 1999 as a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing service mostly for music. It shuttered in 2001, buried by a court order after a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits
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Napster began as a peer-to-peer file-sharing platform in 1999 and later became a licensed music streaming service after legal action led to its shutdown.
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