Napster
Ah, the Internet, what a wondrous invention. It is a speedy alternative to the U.S. Postal Service, a tool for enriching the minds of many, a worldwide shopping mall, and also a haven for copyright pillagers. Or is it? The last eighteen or so months of news from the music industry have been filled with the controversy over a computer program called Napster. In case you've been living under a rock since 1998, a nineteen-year-old named Shawn Fanning launched the company of the same name. The program, which is downloaded off the Napster website (www.napster.com), allows users to "share" MP3's, which are digital music files. It breaks down like this: let's say that computer A has a song on its hard drive in MP3 format. Now, anytime computer A is logged on to Napster, computer B (or any other computer logged on) can download that song off of A's hard drive and on to its own. It's like that for all the computers logged on to Napster at any given time, which undoubtedly numbers in the millions. The program itself was written by Fanning while attending Northeastern University in January 1999, and it "took off so suddenly that he never got around to officially dropping out of school,!
This matter was resolved quickly because of a precedent set in July (just after Contentville started) in the class- action suit against UnCover. In July a new website came on-line called Contentville. UnCover was also selling articles without permission and a judge ordered the company to pay the writers a $7. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**Works SitedEliscu, Jenny. 00 per month, some of its users would be lost. It has been a good fight, but, as shown in his meetings with Middlehoff, Fanning is unrolling his white flag. Metallica, a heavy metal band, is at the forefront of "anti-Napsterism," and drummer Lars Ulrich testified before the Senate that "Napster would destroy his livelihood," (Mandel 1). Quite a few organizations have filed lawsuits against the teen's file-sharing company.
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