Music subscription service Rhapsody announced Monday that it was acquiring a familiar brand — Napster, the peer-to-peer service that spurred music’s piracy crisis in the late ’90s — from Best Buy.

Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co. is selling the subscribers and other assets of Napster to Rhapsody International Inc., a competing online music subscription service. Best Buy of Minneapolis ...

Napster’s long, troubled life is finally coming to an end, with Rhapsody acquiring the service’s subscribers and assets from Best Buy. The Napster brand will be phased out as part of the deal. Napster ...

“Just a few years ago, Napster was acquired by Best Buy for a massive $121 million. Now it seems Best Buy is ready to off-load the music service, as on-demand music provider Rhapsody has just sent out ...

With its Napster acquisition this week, Rhapsody, the venerable U.S.-only digital music subscription service, is in battle mode as rival Spotify attempts to carry its strong momentum in Europe to ...

SEATTLE (AP) -- Electronics retailer Best Buy Inc. is tuning out of Napster, a digital music service that has struggled to evolve from its renegade origins as a free file-sharing network that riled ...

Rhapsody is officially taking music service Napster off of the hands of electronics retailer giant Best Buy, according to Rhapsody reps. According to the deal, Rhapsody will acquire Napster ...

Napster is coming to Japan. Or, at least, its underlying technology is. Seattle-based Rhapsody International and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. announced Monday that the two companies will ...

In the midst of vast sea-changes in the music industry, two on-demand music services are hooking up. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content ...

Rhapsody has acquired fellow music subscription service Napster. The company struck up a deal to purchase its competitor's subscribers and other assets from Best Buy, who will receive a minority stake ...