- 1Napster（直接用英文品牌名）
Napster was a computer program, around 1999, that let people copy songs to each other over the internet for free, as MP3 files. It was the first tool of that kind that millions of ordinary people actually used. Record companies took it to court. Though people often say a court shut it down in 1999, that year is when the service took off and the fight began; the original free Napster was forced to stop in 2001. The name came from a nickname of the young man who built it, Shawn Fanning; friends called him Napster because of his (tightly ) hair. Later the name Napster was used again for a legal paid music shop, but when people say the Napster days they mean that first wild free-sharing time. It is a brand name, so it takes a capital N.
組成nap + -ster. Nap here is from nappy in the hair sense (tightly coiled hair), not from the baby nappy. -ster is an ending that makes a person-word. It was the nickname of Shawn Fanning, then the name of his file-sharing program.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Napsternoun
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Any website that facilitates free distribution of data.
- Some in the used-book industry are questioning whether Amazon.com is becoming the Napster of the book business.
- It would be easy to call the venture-backed, San Mateo-based YouTube the Napster of video, an outlaw startup rocketing onto dotcom radar screens on the backs of rights-holders. But that's a designation that the year-old company desperately wants to avoid.
Napsterverb
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To download from Napster.
- I have done my part this year by buying fewer albums than in any year since, um, 1982 I think it was. No, I haven't been Napstering them, either. I'm catching up to my backlog of listening, listening to the radio, and most-of-all spending a lot of time with demos of friends' bands, and with the tapes I make of my live show every week.
- I've got the first four albums on vinyl. Nothing on CD, other than a few "napstered" songs.
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To upload to or as if to Napster.
- Anyway, I noticed recently that somebody had Napstered the song, and I presume that tapes of the single were floating around long before the internet.
- Google does the "Napstering"-sharing of public and copyrighted materials they take possession of, online. They are pigs, fascists, as that's what fascists do: take all books in the world, for free, and add sponsor links to the public materials.
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To shut down, especially for copyright infringement, as Napster was.
- Don't get me wrong. I am not interested in making that case myself with regard to Debian. On the contrary; I don't want to see Debian get Napstered. Putting obviously infringing stuff onto the mirror network is just begging for trouble. It's not like it's that hard for people to set up their own repositories; let them gamble with their own assets.
- If you find Youtube^([sic]) as fascinating as I do you may want to step up the searches & viewing since it seems they may be "napstered" in the future.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。