The internet has forever changed the way we get our information. Though the technology has been around for about 40 years it was not perfected until the early to mid 1990's. With the introduction of ISP's such as America Online, Compuserve, general usage of the internet skyrockete...

In the recent past, a well-known and widely used internet utility known as Napster was ordered to discontinue all of its activities due to copyright violations. Napster was an internet music-sharing service and was one of the most popular services of its kind. The company existed to allow people acr...

Controlling the InternetCensorship plays a role in everything that is portrayed on the Internet. However, due to the size and its rapid growth, it has become almost impossible to control. In respect to censorship in the Internet, we will be examining the issues of pornography, privacy, security, a...

Napster RICHARD TIBBETTS Is downloading songs off of Napster morally acceptable? My first inclination is to say, no, that downloading an entire song from the Internet is stealing. The artist who recorded the song would actually think so, along with the record label com...

Mobile/Cell Phones Mobile phones have changed the way the world communicates. With the invention of the cellular phone service in 1983, personal telephones no longer depended on wires. In the 90's it was now possible to connect to the Internet from virtually anywhere in the world from your cellular ...

Mike Rossi Sarah Holmes Writing 101 November 27, 2000 Napster, Fighting for Survival The Internet provides many different types of information on virtually any topic possible. There are many components that make up the Internet besides text. Software that is available on the Interne...

Music is beautiful, and the artists who create it are greatly appreciated. Music lets you escape reality or get you in touch with reality. Most people can relate to a lot of songs, the reason for this is because the artists who write the songs are in some way or another, just like you and me. In t...

Shutting Down Napster is Not the Solution Almost everyone has heard of Napster and its long debated issue's of file swapping and sharing. Considering Napster's short-lived existence of about a year and a half, they have certainly opened many people's eyes. Some say the file swap...

"Downloading Music: Useful or Harmful?" Napster, the original creator of free music shareware over the internet, developed a concept that changed the music industry and the consumption of music forever. Napster enabled users to download music from a certain artist in order for them t...

Universitat St. GallenHochschule fur Wirtschafts-Rechts- und SozialwissenschaftenITM / MCMWahlteil Neue Medien / MedienarchitekturProf. Dr. Beat SchmidFILE SHARING SYSTEMEP2PVon Philipp BrunnerHans GeiserRoman HoggStefan KressBeat MeierOlivier SalaminAbgabetermin: 5. Dezember 2000InhaltsverzeichnisE...

More than 25 million people have used Napster in less than one year of operation. It took America Online over 9 years of mailing out start up c.d.'s and other publicity ideas to have that many users. Napster has become the most popular computer software ever made. However, as the majority of y...

For many years the record companies have fixed record prices to avoid competing with each other and to maximize their profits. Currently, the record companies are collaborating in order to force Napster to shut down. The record companies are claiming that Napster is breaking copyright laws. Napster ...

Like the old saying goes, "The best things in life are free." digital media is no exception. Digital media has lately been getting attention due to the legal accusations on a certain type of digital media, MP3s. MP3 stands for Mpeg (a common file compression format) audio layer 3 (which means i...

As most people now know the Internet server, Napster, has grown to be the greatest Internet server known to average teenager and college student. It allows people to download songs from their server and share them with other people, all-free of charge. Not only can you listen to the downl...

First of all how does Napster work? Napster is a software program created by 19 year old Shawn Fanning, through which users can swap songs over the Internet. Computer users visit Napster.com and download the free Napster program. Once the software is installed on the user's hard drive, the user...

In the music industry various artists work hard in order to make music that many people enjoy listening to. They then sell their music to record companies such as Arista, RCA, Warner Brothers, and Jive, just to name a few. These record companies make multi million-dollar deals with these artists wi...

Napster, or file sharing, has taken the computer and recording industry by storm. The process of \"sharing\" music files over the Internet is not stealing copyrighted music. Still, the artists are upset with Napster because they feel it is decreasing their profits. The music industry needs to find o...

Napster: Company Meltdown? A nineteen-year-old entrepreneur, named Shawn Fanning, created Napster in 1999 as an elaborate plan to download music better from the Internet. Since its creation, Napster has caught on in the cyber world like wildfire. Ask any college student if he or she has heard of ...

The Napster ControversyIn the controversy against Napster, many supporters fight to keep their freedom alive. This case is about whether the plaintiffs can use their control of music copyrights to achieve control over Napster's decentralized technology and prevent it from transforming the Internet ...

The Napster Case: A Working Outline, in Progress I Introduction: We wonder what is the correct position to take over the issue of whether Napster is legally and morally correct in its argument that it is a legitimate enterprise. We do not yet have a final consensus thes...

The regulation of music in America has been increasing significantly with the advancements of such companies like Napster and the technology to "burn" or copy cd's. Bands such as Metallica and rap singer Dr. Dre have been some of the leaders in the fight to eliminate the piracy of cop...

Napster 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 cal...

Napster What is the big deal with the whole napster controversy? All it is is a network, which allows millions of people to share files, which are already available on the Internet. People say things like, it's a form of stealing, because you are taking something from an artist that cos...

Digital music, in combination with the internet, has allowed people all across the world to download any song they desire completely free of charge. This is great for consumers, but it is a frightening problem for all involved in the music industry. Illegal downloads have taken the online world by...

Napster: Right or Wrong? The sole reason behind anybody's discrepency with Napster is because there is a group, maybe even the majority its users abuse what it is capable of. They (they being college students and others with high-bandwidth connections [T1, cable modems & DSL]) are using Napster...