Yes piracy is bad and all but as a college student, Napster was such as life saver. You could literally download any song you wanted to listen to. I also remember another application called Kazaa that was popular as well (circa 2000-2002ish)
And on Mac, Poisoned! With support for FastTrack (Kazaa), Gnutella (Limewire), OpenFT, OpenNap, and eMule.
But dial-up was too slow, so it was usually quicker to repair a friend's iPod and make a backup using iPodRip or Senuti.
It soon became very clear the problems of centralization for this purpose, decentralized networks thrived. Most proprietary implementation eventually died. The open ones, emule and gnutella2, although a small shadow of what they were, are still alive.
In the meantime bittorrent evolved and the industry had to bow to streaming services.
But, if anyone still wants to "fell the napster taste", the closest I know today is soulseek. There's a good client, called nicotine+, that works very well last time I tried.
While napster's from 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/20000815233144/http://www.audiog...
So, I think you're right. Strangely wikipedia agrees with my first thought... Maybe someone should fix it.
EDIT: audiogalaxy satellite came after napster, but audiogalaxy had a mp3 since at least may 1999.
It also had a much larger indie community than Napster. I discovered so much good music on Ag that I still listen today.
Not just that, but I've gotten back into IRC recently and there are still channels out there where you can still get individual tracks with CTCP.
Of course, "the industry" doesn't care equating one with another.
From https://www.etymonline.com/word/pirate
It's not so much that words gain meanings, this word gained that meaning three hundred years ago.