During 2000, napster was in and out of court and was finally slated to shut down on July 26, 2000. The decision was reversed two days later on July 28, 2000. in 2001, Konrad Hilbers, a 38-year-old German, became CEO of the rapidly declining music file-sharing site. in June 2001, Napster had more than 26 million users, but growth was declining fast, going from 6.3 billion to 2.2 billion minutes used a day. On March 7, 2002, napster closed its servers while opting to implement a fee-based service to comply with the federal judge's decision.