The program that practically led the file-sharing movement.
Napster was undoubtedly the greatest peer-to-peer program ever created, allowing millions of net users to download their favorite
music at a price substantially smaller than the jacked up prices the
RIAA makes us
shell over. The price? Free.
Unfortunately, when someone decided to complain that they weren't getting $97 out of the millions they make every week, the
RIAA decided to use that as an
excuse to terminate Napster, thus forcing the legendary Shawn Fanning to turn the program into what is now the equivalent of O-Town: something we wish just died altogether.
Today there are some commendable file-sharing programs that, while doing their
job, cannot match up to what Napster has brought to all of us.