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...

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 ...

Online business has become more prosperous in today's marketplace than it has been in the past, when computers were not as popular. With special software that eliminates the jobs of customer service personnel, along with new ad campaigns and e-alliances, Internet commerce continues to thrive. Even...

File sharing is now part of everyday life for the internet generation. The majority of this file sharing is illegal, but it still occurs everyday nonstop. Napster and other programs like it are inevitable because the internet provides a worldwide link between people and the files that they desire ...

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...

Judson Smith Myers English 1101 Paper 1 9/13/2000 Could Napster Be Nicked? Recently, Napster, Inc., the online song sharing company came very close to being shut down for copyright infringement. I believe that it would be a mistake to shut down these online, song-sharing, companies as they provide...

"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...

Rip. Mix. Burn. Steal?After a dramatic federal court ruling that has shut Napster down, will have an effect on sharing music files on the internet. Napster has been one of the hottest sites on the internet in the last eighteen months, with more than fifty million users. Napster allows anyone with ...

NapsterIs downloading music via the Internet sharing or stealing? To millions of Napster's users, it's just sharing and perfectly legal. Napster is a fast growing service that allows online users to search each others' files and exchange music stored in the MP3 format, the format used to copy song...

Information TechnologyTechnology ReportMp3 PlayersAs of late, there has been a new force arising in the music industry, this being Mp3. There has been an explosion of interest in Mp3 primarily thanks to the internet. People can easily download nearly any song they want for the price of a phone call....

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...

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 can ...

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...

Shawn Fanning, a freshman in college, launched Napster in the beginning of 1999.Napster allows Internet users to share and download MP3 (music) files directly from any computer connected to the Napster network, which could be hundreds of thousands of people.You can use Napster by downloading the sof...

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 ...

MUSICAL PRIVACY The topic of this project is musical piracy. Everybody is familiar with the Napster case about copyright infringement. However, Napster isn't the only example of this, MP3.com, and other file sharing sources are targeted also. There is a diverse field of opinions about whethe...

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 ...