In a perfect world, Napster wouldn't have come along.

在完美的世界里，不会有纳普斯特这种公司出现。

Napster CEO Says Consumers Needed Free Music, control.

Napster CEO称消费者需要免费音乐和控制权。

Napster shutdown in 2001, opening the file-sharing floodgates.

2001年，(旧版)Napster网站关闭，开启了文件共享之源。

The most famous peer-to-peer file sharing site was, of course, Napster.

最著名的对等文件共享网站当然是，耐伯斯特。

Many others have followed, including a new, above-board version of Napster.

很多公司也紧随其后，Napster也推出了一个全新的合法版本。

Napster was the subject of lawsuits in 2000 by touchy metal band Metallica and others.

2000年，敏感的重金属乐队Metallica和其它乐队将该公司告上了法庭。

Napster popularizes music file-sharing and spawns successors that have permanently changed the recording industry.

Napster普及了音乐文件共享，造就了永久地改变了唱片业的后来者。

The first great popular success of Internet music was characterized by the original Napster peer-to-peer service.

互联网音乐第一次成功的流行，以原始的Napster点对点服务为特征。

The courts ruled that Napster encouraged copyright infringement and caused the original Napster Website to shut down.

法院最后裁决是Napster的行为是版权侵犯导致最初的Napster网站关闭。

After years of re-launch attempts, Napster was acquired by Best Buy in September 2008 and was born again in May 2009.

Napster在经过几年的东山再起尝试之后，于2008年9月被百思买收购，并在2009年5月重获新生。

He called it Napster and it acquired over 60 million delighted users before the music industry managed to shut it down.

他把软件命名为Napster，很快就有超过6000万的用得正欢的用户，此时音乐行业正设法关闭它。

This is what it was like to use Napster a decade ago; and it is also how Spotify, another free online-music service, works today.

这就像10年前出现的Napster一样；而Spotify作为免费在线音乐服务商，目前的工作原理也是如此。

Napster is receiving financial backing from the German media giant Bertelsmann, which is getting a piece of Napster in return.

纳普斯特也从德国媒体巨头贝塔斯曼那里得到了资金支持，作为回报，贝塔斯曼获得了纳普斯特的一部分。

Napster users may pay a modest monthly fee, which will be divided up among those creating, producing, and delivering the music.

纳普斯特的使用者每月支付一定费用，这笔钱由音乐的创作者、录制者和传播者分配。

While MP3 technology existed as early as 1993, it needed a popular vehicle-napster-to educate consumers on its features and benefits.

MP3技术早在1993年就存在，但是直到Napster这个载体出现，消费者才真正开始了解mp3的特点和优势。

Believe it or not, the entertainment industry was one of the first to harness this shift in the computing paradigm with the infamous Napster.

信不信由你，娱乐业因声名狼藉的Napster采用这种计算范例而成为最早利用这种转变的行业之一。

Parker has been involved with several start-ups over the years, including the once-popular early 2000s music file-sharing service, Napster.

帕克多年来已参与创立了7家初创企业，包括21世纪初一度风行的音乐文件共享网站Napster。

Despite the crackdown on Napster, Kazaa and other peer-to-peer services over the past decade, the volume of file-sharing has grown exponentially.

尽管过去十多年来，Napster、Kazaa和各种端对端服务一直受到打压，文件分享的数据量仍然在指数级地增长。

The online music decade started with Napster, a music file sharing service created by Shawn Fanning that operated between June 1999 and July 2001.

十年之前Napster（1999.6-2001.7）开启了在线音乐时代，这家音乐文件分享网站由Shawn Fanning创建。

At 5pm PST the new Napster will launch with a $5 monthly subscription plan (down from the old $15 plan) and what you get for that price looks quite good.

在太平洋标准时间（PST）下午5点， 新版Napster将重新推出，并提供一个每月5美元的订阅套餐（比原先15美元的计划有所下调）。 而这样的价格看起来很实惠。

The argument against The Pirate Bay founders has been used successfully before, against erstwhile file-sharing giants Napster, Grokster, Morpheus and Kazaa.

针对海盗湾创始人的论点以前也被成功地用于往昔的文件分享巨人Npaster，Grokster，Morpheus和Kazaa。

The past year has seen rapid growth of digital music services that accept the post-Napster consensus that music should be free, or at least appear to be free.

过去几年数字音乐快速增长，并形成了后Napster时代的共识——音乐应该是免费的，或者至少显得免费。

In the past, the music industry has made the broad demand that sites legally selling downloads should sell them by the track, much like Apple's iTunes, or Napster.

想当年，唱片业四处呼吁，要求合法经营音乐下载的站点应当像苹果itunes或者Napster那样按单曲来销售。

In fact, the comparison to Napster is somewhat inaccurate, since Napster used centralized servers to track music sharing, while Bitcoin is entirely distributed.

实际上，拿纳普斯特来打比方并不十分确切，因为纳普斯特是用中央服务器来追踪音乐分享的，而比特币交易则是完全分散的。