Napster Fades Away

Napster ceased to exist yesterday as it was quietly folded into the streaming service Rhapsody. It was only twelve years ago that Napster heralded the still-accelerating demise of physical media, a decline jolted at rocket-speed by the 2001 advent of iTunes.

But even download sites like iTunes are inevitably doomed as the world moves into the Spotify-Netflix-Rhapsody cloud. Remember when people bragged about their record collection? Their movie collection? Not anymore. Nobody owns anything. We own everything. Oh, well. Less dusting, I suppose.