Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers
Napster is back. The name that struck fear into the hearts of music executives in the early dotcom era may be coming to a classroom near you.
In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, it has signed a strategic partnership with Gems Education to build AI agents and digital personas for education. In doing so, the once-notorious music-sharing company is bringing its technology into the classroom and testing how AI can augment the work of both teachers and students.
Today’s Napster, of course, bears no resemblance to its original incarnation as a peer-to-peer music-file-sharing service. Launched in 1999 by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, the platform revolutionized how people downloaded music, forcing the entire entertainment industry to rethink how content was distributed, sold, and controlled.
Napster eventually became the subject of a string of legal battles over copyright infringement and, following a series of adverse court rulings, had to shut downits...
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