Napster – In 1998 a teenage computer nerd called Shawn Fanning created the pioneering peer-to-peer file-sharing site Napster. Its users could freely share and distribute music between themselves much to the contempt of Metallica, Dr Dre et al. After a string of high profile court cases, the original platform eventually shut down in 2001 but it inadvertently spawned a whole host of similar sites.
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