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Napster

            As most people now know the Internet server, Napster, has grown to be the greatest Internet server known to average teenager and college student. It allows people to download songs from their server and share them with other people, all-free of charge. Not only can you listen to the downloaded MP3 files on the Napster Mp3 player, but it also allows people with CD burners to burn these MP3s onto a blank CD, which can now be taken anywhere. .
             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 is 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.


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1. Napster

... Fanning changed the way music was to be heard by creating a program that shares Mp3's anywhere in the world (Rowell 3). "The controversial Napster program was developed by former Northeastern University student Fanning when he was 18." (Rowell 3). The invention of this program influenced other Internet users ... how most musicians make their money, by touring, not the selling of the Compact Disc. The biggest record labels that are filing lawsuits against Napster are Sony, EMI, Warner Bros. and universal (Rowell 2). "The heavy metal band, says it has identified more than 350,000 individua...

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2. Napster

... files only. Many recording artists and record labels feel that they are getting cheated out of money that is rightfully theirs. The three main problems Napster has are, do they cheat recording artists, do they break copyright infringement laws and how can we solve the dilemma between music file sharing. The ... thousand users can enjoy the music of someone they never herd of. The main reason why the music industry is making a big deal is, because Napster challenges the original distribution of music and recording artists and companies feel threatened. Record labels need to see this new f...

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3. Napster a detailed history

... . First off, a little technical history. Right now you're probably thinking to yourself, "Hey, how come we never traded music on the internet before Napster came out?" The reason why is because the typical audio CD holds up to 650 MB (megabytes) of space. Each individual song can be up to 50 ... that people downloaded MP3s directly from other users, and not from a central server (Peer-to-Peer and other technical terms can be found at the Napster.com Help portion of their website). That would logically make it harder for people to track what music was being traded to whom. In December 1999...

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4. Napster

... to it. Sharing and downloading songs are easy to do, sign up, pay your fee, and download away. One thing that I have learned with Napster, as well with any website that offers the same features; the more you share the faster your downloading time is. You will never be able to ... on one C.D. Of course with the Internet there is always ways around paying for something. Illegal downloads and C.D. burning, this is still a problem for Napster and the RIAA. People are still able to get access to the website with programs like WinZip. Along with another program such as Peer Guardian, so ... ...

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5. Napster Law Suit

... to facilitate a connection between the two users and initiate the downloading of the file without any further action on either user's part.(gigalaw #1) Napster's deffence to the copyright infringment is that "its business activities fall within the safe harbor provided by subsection 512(a). This subsection limits liability " ... and does not interfere with standard technical measures. The Plaintiffs argued that they did not do this until a lawsuit was brought against them. Napster doest not do anything to the people who are doing the infringing. If their defiance is that the person who d...

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6. Napster

... is because of CD sale increase. According to Sound Scan CD sales jumped 8% from the year before, to 177 million units. This was because of Napster. Billy Joe Armstrong from the band Green Day says, " I just want my music to be out, and that's always been my main priority ... . It was never really about getting paid. It was about getting people to hear our music." Sound Scan also says that Napster is creating a BUZZ that will tremendously increase CD sales in the future. This was said before the jump in CD sales. Fred Durst of Limp ... has become just another appliance. Like a toaster or ...

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7. Napster

... files but hated the time and trouble it took to find them. Shaun decided he would write the Beta, which is a primary program, for what he called Napster. He had a vision of all users being connected to one central computer and a song list that would be constantly updated. After writing a small version, ... they want other users to be able to download from their computer library, then they may download songs from other users' personal computer library. According to Napster, 800,000 users are logged onto the server at any given time. A wide variety of musical genres are available for user...

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8. Napster

... the service makes it very user friendly. By being very interested in music, I have become very familiar with this service. Napster was founded in May of 1999 by Shawn Fanning(www.Napster.com). He created the site so that people could "share" music files with each other. The files, called mp3's, can ... so they are very easy to find. The songs can even be listened to through the service Napster provides. Lately, Napster has been under fire from many of the major record labels. The record labels claim that Napster is robbing them of millions of dollars. Because the files can be accessed an...

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9. Napster

... ability to search for particular files and initiate a direct transfer between the clients. In addition chat forums similar to IRC are available. Napster is a free way for clients to share files in a peer to peer network and could possibly be the biggest thing to ever happen to the ... was anybody with the desire to download free music. It was a great way to sample music without having to buy an entire cd. The problem with Napster was that the artists didn't like their music out there for free. Many felt that they were losing a lot of money from record sales. Metallica is ... a great ex...

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10. Music and Napster

... 5 (May, 2000) www. firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_5/dolfsma/index.html Gwin, Peter. "Latest From the Digital Music Wars- Europe pp.5 (April 2001) Expanded Academic ASAP Jones, Christopher. "Metallica Rips Napster- Wired.com (April 13, 2000) www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35670,00.html Kasaras, Kostas. "Music in the Age of Free Distribution: MP3 and Society- First Monday volume 7, number ... 1 (January, 2002) www. firstmonday.dk/issues/issue7_1/kasaras/index.html Kelly, David. "Grohl Backs Napster- Dot Music.com (September 15, 2000) www.dotmusic.com/news/September2000/news15402.asp Mar...

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