oning system for new musicians and labels. Established bands post sample tracks from new albums to encourage CD sales, and new bands post their music on MP3 sites in order to develop an audience.
             The main legal controversy involved with MP3 files is that they are being traded around
             the Internet without the consent of the artist or record companies. Kimmel states the following: It seem obvious that the use of MP3 technology does not for the most part, meet the requirements, set by the Copyright Law of 1976, to clam fair use for educational purposes. These arguments can include protection gaps, where copyright treaties only protect material for a certain amount of time, thus making produced and distributed after this gap has expired legal. Another legal justification of bootleg recordings is that the copyright is not owned by the artist, publisher, or record company, though this defense has not been as successful as the protection gap defense. The length, format, and approximate size is making it easy for sites to be around such as MP3.com and programs such as Napster. For example, for a five minute music file, the size of a .WAV file would be sixty megabytes, a .MP3 file would be five megabytes, and a Real Audio file would be less than a megabyte (but the sound wouldn't be as clear as a MP3).
             The chief argument that MP3.com stat
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