A couple years ago, a revolution was created. This introduced piracy to the greater public. This revolution is called "Napster", a free, downloadable file-sharing client that enables users to easily find music on the internet shared by its users. They are able to acquire any song they could think of by simply typing it in the search tool. Napster eventually spurred up controversy as it began to become more and more popular. I asked Mr. L if he believed shutting down Napster was the correct thing to do, he responded, "When Napster was shut down, other developers just released new file sharing programs that were "clones" (software that performed the similar tasks), piracy continued to exist and illegal file sharing is increasing more and more every year. So it wasn't really a good move but we'll never know if it was a bad move because these new programs may have come up eventually even when Napster was still functioning. It didn't really have any effect on software/music pirates."
             Another person claims that "Napster was simply a tool to sample music or use the music for personal use. There is no difference between the record button on your VCR to the download button on your computer."Out of the numerous people I have interviewed nobody has ever responded with a contradicting statement. This tells me the majority of the youths today support piracy. On the internet, I searched for many the many faces of piracy. It turns out that piracy is not exclusive to software, games, music, and movies, but things like counterfeiting, and even special discounts on prices are considered piracy. I also learned from some of the disclaimers on pages selling "backed up software", that holding an illegal copy of a disc is not illegal unless you destroy it within 24 hours of retrieval. I also found pages that were shut down do to selling products that promote piracy such as "mod-chips" for ...