What would you do if had a access to all the music that you wanted and it was free? Well, in the age of the internet this situation is possible with mp3's. Mp3's are compressed digital audio files which has near cd quality sound. It was developed by a German engineering form called Fraunhofer IIS in 1987. It is the most searched word on the internet and the most popular. Mp3's have affected not only regular people, but also the artists as well. The shareware Napster is a program that lets you search for the music you want and get it for free. Napser was developed by Shawn Fanning at the age of 18. People have said it is one of the greatest innovations made on the inter net next to email and instant messaging. You can also go in chat rooms on aol and get mp3's through mail also. There are also web sites where you can get albums in mp3 format that aren't even released yet. Napster is the shareware that most people use to get their music. Many people have benefited from Napster, but yet there have been prices that people have had to pay for this peer to peer file sharing software.
             Napster provides free mp3's to everyone. Napster has any song that you can ever want. The song library is vast in that there are millions of people connected to napster throughout the world. There are currently 25 million people around the world using napster. The benefits of this shareware is great especially for college students who have t3 connection where downloading an mp3 only takes seconds. College students such as myself have saved thousands of dollars on cd, because of napster and other napster copycat programs. I have downloaded thousands of songs. Through napster I have downloaded songs that I could never find in record stores or songs that are very hard to find. My music collection has grown, because of napster and I basically have all the music I could ever have wanted. Even without the t3 connection it only takes...