"The vast majority of my living is made from touring. Nobody's going to be able to download that.” Napster ushered in the future of streaming music and movies In addition to whetting consumers ...

By Elias Leight At least half a dozen distributors and record labels are frustrated with the streaming service Napster due to late royalty payments, executives tell Billboard. In some cases, rights ...

The current iteration of Napster was bought by Rhapsody and transformed from a pirate download service into a music streaming service. Rhapsody rebranded itself under the Napster name in 2016.

Despite its name remaining one of the most loaded terms in Internet history, Napster’s mission to go straight still chugs along, and the now-music streaming service’s latest plays are ...

Today, clearly, we’re going to news-party like its 1999, because labels are unhappy with Napster. But this time it's over royalties.