Some in the used-book industry are questioning whether Amazon.com is becoming the Napster of the book business.
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Napster
Synonyms for "napster" (10 found)
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Noun(2 words)
digital music servicefile sharer
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Noun(3 words)
music downloadermusic file sharing networkmusic streaming service
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Noun(5 words)
napster userp2p music networkp2p userpeer to peer networkstreaming platform
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6 entriesNapster brandNapster eraNapster lawsuitNapster platformNapster serviceNapster users
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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.
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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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I have done my part this year by buying fewer albums than in any year since, um, 1982 I think it was. No, I haven't been Napstering them, either. I'm catching up to my backlog of listening, listening to the radio, and most-of-all spending a lot of time with demos of friends' bands, and with the tapes I make of my live show every week.
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