With Napster and the record labels arguing their cases again on Friday March 2 in a San Francisco courtroom, artists remain divided in their opinions on the file-swapping service. By signing artists to contracts giving record labels ownership of master recordings, Prince said the industry has tried to redefine art as product and property. Prince isn't alone among artists in his criticism of Napster as infringing on artists' copyrights. Metallica and Dr. Dre both filed suit against the service, and had thousands of Napster users booted for trading their music.

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Sean Parker born December 3, is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, most notable for co-founding the file-sharing computer service Napster , and serving as the first president of the social networking website Facebook. He also co-founded Plaxo , Causes , Airtime. As a child, Parker was an avid reader, which was the beginning of his lifelong autodidacticism. When Parker was 15, he met year-old Shawn Fanning over the Internet, where the two bonded over topics like theoretical physics and hacking. Lawsuits by various industry associations eventually shut down the service. In November , Parker launched Plaxo , an online address book and social networking service that integrated with Microsoft Outlook.


Napster: the day the music was set free
Patrick Carney of the Black Keys called Spotify board member and Napster founder Sean Parker an "a--hole" in the middle of a rant against the online streaming service. The Black Keys have not made all of their music available on the wildly popular streaming service because they think it's unfair to the artist. Parker recently said Spotify would make more money for the music industry than iTunes, a claim Carney strongly disputed:. As Rolling Stone points out, the Keys have kept their music off other streaming services as well. Carney has been quite upfront about the simple reason for the band's decision.



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