Napster

Pros: Free music, by most of your favorite artists.
Cons: Legally controversial, can get clogged up.

Did you think Radiohead's live performance on SNL was totally awesome? Do you ever have an itch to listen to the Muppet Babies song? Wanna know just what Marilyn Manson's songs are like, but don't want your pastor to catch you with one of his albums in...

Pros: free, easy to use
Cons: songs take a few minutes to download

This place is really too good to last. I mean look, you can download pretty much any song you want for free. This is great while is lasts. I had heard a lot of talk about this controversial site, but never actually checked it out until the other day. I...

Pros: A Napster Revolution has happened.
Cons: Where were you, it's over now.

Napster began in May 1999, when a young college student at Northeastern University created computer software that allowed users to swap MP3 files with other users of this service. At the time that meant hardly anything to anyone with connection to the...

Pros: Its still free!!!! can find almost any song and download it
Cons: slow at times

2 years ago, a college dropout named Shawn Fanning developed programming for one of the most innovative and controversial web sites ever created. Obviously this site is called Napster and has stirred some heated debate as to the legality of the service...

Pros: The extremely wide variety of music may make you question some user's sanity (or hearing). You can always find what you want, downloads are usually fast, servers are up most of the time.
Cons: Hot List doesn't show any user's files, searches limited to 100.

I sincerily hope that no church-goers are offended by this...

In the beginning, there was nothing.
Then, on the first day, g0d created the MP3, and the world rejoiced.
g0d was not happy, however, because the world could...

Pros: Free, chat facility, large community (once).
Cons: MP3 only, feels like stealing, just not right.

Napster was first released a fair while back during either 2000 or 1999 I downloaded mine on the first night of getting an internet connection last June 2000. I was fairly happy to spend something like 30 minutes to a few hours downloading on a 56k...

Pros: Fun to find rare songs, perfect for people with no money
Cons: Yes, it can be stealing, won't be around for free much longer (stupid capitalism)

I'm about to graduate from college. I have $9 in my savings account, rent is due tomorrow, and I ate Pringles for dinner because I'm not on a budget...I'm out of money. As a matter of fact, I owe about $26,000 in student loans, and just found out I'm...

Pros: Easy to make playlists; Convenient MP3 music files
Cons: Lawsuit by RIAA against Napster's fans' thirst for exchanging person-to-person music files

For a few years now, Napster has been facilitating the exchange of person-to-person music files on the Internet. It has managed to cultivate a large community of fans and users who become more and more thirsty for more music files. A lot of observers...

Pros: find any song you want, easy to use, free
Cons: sometimes slow, error messages at times

I'm fairly computer literate, but not what anyone would consider an expert. I'd say I'm the average user - so when my brother started talking to me about MP3's and this website called Napster that he uses to download songs from, I became intrigued. I...

Pros: Great library.
Cons: Moral debate!

Before I review Napster, I should point out that I am not condoning using this program to infringe copyright. You could use Napster to do this if you wanted, but I am not going to be the one to suggest it.

What Napster does allow you to do,...

Pros: great for sharing music
Cons: too many people abused the system

I find it amusing how these cry-baby record companies are whining about Napster and MP3 sites in general, when they're not the real problem.
The real problem is when people grab MP3's and then burn CD's to listen to in their car, their stereo, their...

Pros: Great Idea!
Cons: SO SSLLLOOOWWWW!

I wonder, did they get the name because of how long it takes to download?...Time enough to take a nap?

This controversial download utility is loaded with pro's and con's!

On the plus side, I was ecstatic when I found I could...

Pros: free; wide variety of songs; free; can find songs that are no longer available in other places
Cons: The downloading time can be long sometimes

I know this seems like a stupid title for a review written on Naptster, but a reason for it does actually exist. For anyone who grew up in the TNBC era with Saved By the Bell and California Dreams you know that this is the first line from the NBC...

Pros: Get Any Mp3. Customize Everything. Free.
Cons: Some Speed Problems.

When I first got Napster I thought it can't be true that there are over 6,000 gigabytes of Mp3 files on this system, but I was totally wrong. I have found almost all of my music off of Napster and now I am able to burn CDs and get music I never thought I...

Pros: Free app, free service, free songs, free mp3player,
Cons: Download time for some songs

HELLO? I've been waiting for this software for a long time... What a way to trade your songs and get those hard-to-find mp3's!!!

The product gets it's name because the Author of Napster was called "Napster" as a nickname...