downloaded music or have listened to any current news you have by no doubt heard of Napster and their constant disputes with the Recording Industry Association of America and even with specific musicians. To question the morality of this issue one first needs to look into how Napster originated. In January 1999, in a dorm room at North Eastern University in Boston, Shawn Fanning, a 19 year old music and computer enthusiast created the first versions of Napster. It started out being a project in which just a few friends were trying to facilitate the trading of compressed music files and other data. 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 their software soon became available all over the campus and not long after, nationwide. Napster was born. What started out to be a simple software tool to make trading data simple became a copy

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