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 ...

Insiders say the metaverse project has become a financial sinkhole, consuming $45 billion by early 2025. That's nearly equal ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...