Meaning of Napster | Babel Free

Definitions

Any website that facilitates free distribution of data.

Internet

Examples

“Some in the used-book industry are questioning whether Amazon.com is becoming the Napster of the book business.”

“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⟳.”

“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⟳.)”

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