If you thought the Napster peer-to-peer music sharing platform was long since toast, a new $207 million deal says otherwise. Turns out the brand has been bought and will be reborn as a metaverse-based ...

Since 2016, Napster has been operating as a (legal) streaming service. It claims to have over 110 million high-fidelity tracks, with some supporting lossless audio. Napster subscribers can also listen ...

Napster, a once-popular website people used in the late ‘90s to illegally share music online that went bankrupt in 2001, has been sold for $207 million to a 3D technology company with plans to bring ...

Napster is back? If you're confused, you're not alone. Internet users expressed disbelief that the brand still existed — let alone had sold for $207 million. "Napster? Is it 1999?" The news on ...

Infinite Reality Inc., a metaverse company that builds and powers virtual reality immersive digital media experiences for ...

This was confirmed by both parties in a joint announcement. Infinite Reality wants to transform Napster into a kind of music metaverse. In its announcement, Infinite Reality describes itself as ...

Artificial intelligence startup Infinite Reality has acquired the music-pirating app turned music streaming service Napster in a $207 million deal and plans to add a music-focused metaverse.

The original Napster went out of business in 2001 but, despite its short, fiery life and premature, litigation-fueled death, it has soldiered on throughout the years, thanks largely to newer tech ...

And now in 2025, a company has spent over $200 million on Napster with the goal of using it in the totally-not-dead tech-bro-fantasy-land that is the metaverse. On March 25, as reported by CNBC ...

I thought Napster was fully dead. Is it profitable now? How did it even sell for $70 million once and presumably grow enough to be worth $200 million now? Or is it literally just a brand?

The news on Tuesday that Napster had been sold for $207 million sparked disbelief as millennials experienced a hearty dose of nostalgia. The controversial OG music-sharing platform, founded in ...