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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Now, the brand has been bought by Metaverse company Infinite Reality for $207 million with plans to make it “a social and interactive music platform.” This is Napster’s third time changing ...

After all these years, Napster is apparently worth $207 million. That’s how much artificial intelligence and extended reality company Infinite Reality purchased the former file-sharing service ...

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 ...

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 ...