Rumors have now been proven true that Napster is going to make its members pay for the use of their server. This is due to the newly formed alliance between the German record label Bertelsmann and Napseter (Menta, 1). “We will work closely with Napster to establish a new membership-based service that achieves acceptance by other music provider” said Andreas Schmidt, president of the Bertelsmann e-commerce group (Menta, 1). I think that it is ridiculous for someone to have to pay just to share his or her files with others. Napster should be a free sight and should be aloud to operate without outside forces telling them what to do, in this case the major music labels. If you wanted to trade something as simple as comics should you have to pay for that opportunity? Because this i

s basically the same thing, it is just not done online. It seems that no one remembers back in the eighties and early nineties when people made copies of tape cassettes and gave them to friends or family. It is essentially the same process. You are taking a finished music product and making a copy of it. The tape is not being sold to anyone, just being given away or kept for ones own personal enjoyment. The same also applies to the VCR and recording movies off the television. When you record a movie and then proceed to watch it again without having to pay for it no one is complaining about it. You can make copies of the movie regardless of the FBI warning just as long as you don’t sell the copies of the tape.

Mp3’s are shared over what Napster calls the Napster Community. This is all done over a network, which links thousands and thousands of computers together. The setup is quits simple. You simply go to the search tab and you then click on one of two ways to search. You either type in the name of the artist and you will get a list of songs by them. Or you can type in the name of a particular song and find what you want that way. Once you have found your song you will select the file you desire out of all the listed and you begin to downl

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