Napsterize
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]Napsterize (third-person singular simple present Napsterizes, present participle Napsterizing, simple past and past participle Napsterized)
- To share on or as if on Napster.
- 2004 March 1, Lawrence Lessig, “Some Like It Hot”, in Wired[2]:
- When entrepreneurs first started installing cable in 1948, most refused to pay the networks for the content that they hijacked and delivered to their customers - even though they were basically selling access to otherwise free television broadcasts. Cable companies were thus Napsterizing broadcasters' content, but more egregiously than anything Napster ever did - Napster never charged for the content it enabled others to give away.
- To reduce the profits of an industry by facilitating piracy of its products, as Napster did to the music industry.
- 2000 September 14, John W Hendry, “The truth about alt.binaries.e-book”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
- Bottom line? E-books are here to stay. The publishing industry can either follow the lead of brave authors like Nancy Kress, Mike McCollum et al, and start publishing ebooks at reasonable prices, or they can get Napsterized.
- 2002 September 7, foldedpath, “Air travel out of tune for musicians”, in rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic[3] (Usenet):
- This isn't just about FBI access to email (actually at this point it will be your entire hard drive).... it's also about how Hollywood wants to sell you movies, and how the record labels want to sell you music. They are desperate (and I mean foaming-at-the-mouth desperate) to get chip-level encryption built into PC's, so they can stop peer-to-peer file trading networks. Hollywood doesn't want to get Napsterized when they finally open their vaults and start distributing digital movies at full high-def resolution. Government back doors are just a "side benefit" of the push for encryption for secure distribution of media files.
- To shut down for copyright infringement, as Napster was.
- 2001 June 10, thuss80fageddaboudit.com, “Smooth Jazz (Sharezy Time)”, in misc.news.internet.discuss (Usenet):
- If you're on a modem connection (as I am), these mp3 downloads are gonna be slow (6meg for Desafinado, 9 meg for Girl From Ipanema. But it's worth it. Start the download, and go out for coffee or something. <g> That's how I got 'em. I'll probably only keep these up for a few days, otherwise I might get Napsterized. :)