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What Happened To: Napster — Case File 004
In two years, Napster signed 80 million users, broke the music industry, and accidentally invented streaming. Sued by Metallica and shuttered in 2001, it remains a relic of a lawless digital frontier; its specific brand of chaos is now structurally impossible to replicate.
