But the idea lives on, in the form of BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer filesharers; the Napster brand is still used by a legal music-downloading service.The story of Napster helps to explain the excitement about Bitcoin, a digital currency, that is based on similar technology.
In the first of a series of columns for BBC Sport through the course of the race, Thomas explains the excitement of racing the Tour on home soil, why Cavendish could win two of the first three stages, and his role in Froome's bid for a second straight overall victory.
The third, frequently repeated by Tony Blair, is that the next election will be decided by who has the best policies.All of this goes some way to explain the flurry of excitement over the launch last week of a new policy website by Alan Milburn and Charles Clarke, neither of them known for being among Mr Brown's admirers.
"I feel a bit of relief, excitement, it's tough to explain," the Scot told BBC Sport.
"It's hard to explain, but the excitement, you just feel it.
Mitchell wanted to return to the excitement of New York.
"That's a birder's equivalent to seeing an aardvark!" Karl said, explaining the excitement.
The rarity of the jaguar explains the excitement at Saladero Ecolodge, an isolated resort that can be reached only by boat from the eastern edge of the Osa Peninsula, when one of its own cameras photographed a passing jaguar on the evening of April 28 , 2015
The skill involved, coupled with the high-octane excitement of quadcopters winging through space at high speeds, goes a long way towards explaining the excitement around drone racing.
The high stiffness of tendons which results in linear pitch motion of TLPWT hull (less than 0.02 degrees) and tower (less than 0.25 degrees) can explain the limited excitement of the tower first bending mode.
