Citations:Napster

English citations of Napster

2004 July 12, “Yukos Offers $8 Billion To Cover Its Tax Bill”, in New York Times:

Some in the used-book industry are questioning whether Amazon.com is becoming the Napster of the book business.

2007 October 15, “Video Napster?”, in Newsweek‎^[1]:

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.

2019 May 26, Dan Cohen, “The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper”[2], The Atlantic:

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.)