needs to look into how Napster originated. Napster began in the dorm room of music and

computer enthuisiust Shawn Fanning, a 19 year-old college freshman at North Eastern

University in Boston in 1999. It started out being a project in which just a few friends were

trying to swap music and data to and from each other. To save time they wanted to create a

single place on the internet where they could store all of their information. This was much

easier than to physically go and borrow a CD or tape and then manually record it. It made

obtaining all of their music more practical and even more so only a few mouse clicks away.

This seemed harmless at first, but then as time went on thei

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