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Napster

defunct paid online music service
Organization business Q1965067
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Summary

Napster is a business[1]. Napster ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (504 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Napster is in the country of US[3].
  • Napster's instance of is recorded as business[4].
  • Napster's instance of is recorded as software[5].
  • Napster is owned by Roxio[6].
  • Napster's headquarters location is recorded as Los Angeles[7].
  • Napster is used for media player software[8].
  • Napster's industry is recorded as online music store[9].
  • 2003 marks the founding of Napster[10].
  • 1999 marks the founding of Napster[11].
  • 2019-04-10 marks the founding of Napster[12].
  • Napster's official website is recorded as http://www.napster.com/[13].
  • Napster's product or material produced is recorded as software[14].
  • Napster's legal form is recorded as XTIQ[15].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 984500E73FAAF9U54B73[16]

  • Registered legal name: Napster Corporation[17]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[18]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[19]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XTIQ[20]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[21]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[22]

  • Entity created: 2019-04-10[23]

  • LEI first registered: 2026-03-19[24]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-03-19[25]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-03-19[26]

  • Managing LOU: 529900T8BM49AURSDO55[27]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[28]

  • Authority entity ID: 7367289[29]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[30]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include 2003[10], 1999[11], and 2019-04-10[12].

Operations

Napster's headquarters location is recorded as Los Angeles[7].

Industry

Napster's industry is recorded as online music store[9].

Ownership

Napster is owned by Roxio[6]. Napster's product or material produced is recorded as software[14].

Why It Matters

Napster ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (504 views/month).[2] Napster is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Related Entities

business Los Angeles software

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . National Software Reference Library. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [16] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [19] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [20] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [21] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [22] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [23] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [24] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [25] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [26] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [27] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    P14750 → 396C-84EE-83CF-2FF7-444E
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: 396C-84EE-83CF-2FF7-444E, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269256|batch #269256]]"
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