Is it possible to feel nostalgic over a lawsuit? To read through the various legal demands, accusations of false dealing, ...

Following reports earlier this year that Napster wasn’t paying all the royalties that were due to the music industry, Sony ...

Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is suing Napster parent Infinite Reality (which rebranded as Napster Corp. in May) for ...

Sony Music claims Napster has been delinquent on payments for over a year while collecting subscription fees from “millions ...

In 1999, Sony Music Entertainment was one of many labels to sue Napster for copyright infringement. Now, the company is suing ...

Sony Music hit Napster with a lawsuit over $9 million in unpaid royalties, also claiming the streaming service is infringing its copyrights.

The company is claiming $9.2 million in unpaid royalties and a potential $36 million in damages from copyright infringement.

Once seen as a cautionary tale of Silicon Valley recklessness, Napster pioneered a damn-the-torpedoes approach since perfected by Airbnb, Uber and some AI giants.

The Led Zeppelin case, the Beyoncé sample fight, the Napster lawsuit and more music law news stories are covered in this roundup.

Napster lives on Since its file-sharing operation was shut down in 2001, Napster has been bought and reimagined several times. Harry McCracken, global technology editor at Fast Company, says the ...

Napster's fame spread by word of mouth, and it soon had 10,000 to 15,000 users. But once the program was featured on Cnet's Download.com site, the number of users soared into the millions.

June 1999: Napster is launched by Shawn and John Fanning. It's the first massive scale peer-to-peer network focused exclusively on sharing music — MP3 files, mostly.