Think Napster Failed? Think Again

Did Napster fail? I'm going to take a slightly different point of view on this topic than it seems other contributors have. While it is obvious that Napster initially failed to break boundaries in a financial sense, the product ultimately still exists (albeit incredibly morphed and under new ownership) for sale today at www.napster.com. From that standpoint, even selling out should demonstrate a product that someone found viable and therefore can not be taken as a total failure. Hosting copyrighted material for free, public distribution failed. This is to be expected since it is illegal. In two much larger senses, however, Napster succeeded.