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Downloading Music from Napster Legally with Broadband Internet

The History of Napster

In the beginning, Napster started out as a peer to peer (P2P) file sharing program, like the many others that exist today including Kazaa, Limewire, Shareaza, and eDonkey. Napster allowed users to swap music files for free from other users all over the world, and it had a very large database. Napster was the first, and for awhile, it was the best way to gain access to millions upon millions of songs and audio clips from around the world.

However, after a few years, court battles began to be fought regarding the legality of companies like Napster. Charges of copyright infringement were filed, and music companies began to complain that they were losing money to all the people downloading their songs for free on the Internet, whereas before CDs and cassettes had to be bought.

50 Napster Radio Stations


A ruling was finally made, and Napster was forced to change its tune in order to survive. Napster now exists solely as a music-downloading subscription service, and the money it makes from users goes to music companies and the artists whose music is on the site. For a monthly fee, users are allowed, legally, to download music and, for an additional fee, to burn CDs for permanent collections.

How to Enjoy Music with Napster - Legally

If you have a broadband Internet connection, then you can start enjoying Napster today! Here are some of Napster’s current offers:

For $9.95 a month, Napster users can:

  • listen to their choice of over 1,000,000 songs as often as they like
  • download an unlimited amount of music to listen to offline (though not everything can be burned onto a CD without an additional fee)
  • keep all the downloaded music as long as the membership lasts
  • listen to over 50 commercial-free radio stations
  • download music from over 50 years of Billboard Charts
  • purchase music for a permanent collection for as little as $.80 a song

Napster also offers pre-assembled play lists that can be quickly and easily downloaded (with a high-speed broadband connection!) onto MP3 players. This saves listeners a lot of time picking and choosing songs. Users can also create their own radio stations, read music reviews and interviews, and share and swap music with other Napster members.

All of this can be done for less than $10 per month, and only a little more if songs are burned for permanent collections. Napster is another great way you can enjoy your broadband Internet connection!