At its height, Napster had over 25 million users creating and sharing the largest catalog of recorded music ever available to the public. Downloaded retraces the history of one of the most disruptive technologies of the Internet Age, from its humble chatroom beginnings to its takedown at the hands of a music industry that didn’t know what hit it. Napster’s popularity was a shot across the bow at major music labels that had been dismissive of the Internet’s potential. The ensuing digital rights debate is still being waged today—even if Napster only exists as a shadow of its former self. With a cache of archival footage and illuminating interviews with people on both sides of the debate, Downloaded provides a fast-paced and highly entertaining account of the meteoric rise and fall of this revolutionary application. Napster may have been beaten, but it remains a foundational brick on the road to the networked world we inhabit today.  RM