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Blast from the past: Napster tries free music, with a twist

In a sign of a shakeup in the online music scene, Napster is taking a new stab at free music, but with limits. The news marks a shift for Napster, which started in 1999 as a renegade service that had as many as 70 million members using it for free downloads before it was shut down by the courts in 2001 for massive copyright violations.