Napster filed for bankruptcy in 2002 and was shut down after the record industry and rock band Metallica sued over copyright violations. Rhapsody later bought the brand in 2011 and relaunched it as a ...

The music-streaming service Napster has sold for $207 million to the tech firm Infinite Reality.

Whatever remains of "Napster" has been sold off for the umpteenth time to a media company that you've never ...

Napster’s $207 million deal with Infinite Reality comes nearly a decade after it relaunched as a music streaming service as a result of Rhapsody changing its name in 2016 to maintain relevancy.

MP3 service Rhapsody bought the brand in 2011, before floundering to make cash and realising that the only thing they owned that was worth anything was the Napster brand. Thus they changed their ...

Napster, a once-popular website people used in the late ‘90s to illegally share music online that went bankrupt in 2001, has been sold for $207 million to a 3D technology company with plans to ...

The Napster brand was subsequently relaunched and had multiple owners over the years, including Best Buy, which sold it to Rhapsody in 2011. Today Napster operates a fully licensed independent ...

A tech startup announced Tuesday it had bought Napster in hopes of transforming the streaming service into a social music platform.

Tech company Infinity Reality said it hopes to turn the streaming service into a "social and interactive music platform." By Ethan Millman Napster, the brand that ushered in an era of rampant ...