OpenNap P2P file sharing returns …

The original Napster P2P file sharing service comprised a protocol which let users to move files computer to computer. Music industry pressure buried it in 2001. But soon after, it was disinterred as a pale facsimile of its former self and is today owned by Best Buy which, after spending $121 million to buy what amounts to little more than a name, is determined to become the first concern to actually make money out of the file sharing app that started it all.

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