A popular program easily accessible on the Internet is called Napster. After you download it from Napster's site, you basically tell it where you keep your Mp3 files and when it connects it cross-references everyone's files and lets you search through them all and download as you please. 90% of the files that are traded daily are illegally "ripped" from CDs. Napster has a blurb at startup that states "Copying or distributing unauthorized Mp3 files may violate United States and/or foreign copyright laws. Compliance with copyright law remains your responsibility." The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is charging the site with copyright infringement and alleges that Napster has created a base for music piracy on an unpr

This battle has set the Internet community on its ear because of the free speech rights at risk. If they limit our file transfers, what will be next? Email postage? Maybe, but as most of us hope, that will never come about. Piracy happens every day on the Internet, and currently there is no really effective way to deal with it that hasn't already been compromised. If the RIAA strikes down Napster, then another platform will start up. If the big music labels come up with an encoding technology to compromise rippers, then an enterprising hacker will crack it. When the DVD industry came out with DVDs, it was feared that users with accelerated CD burners would try to copy DVDs. They developed a scrambler so that if you tried to copy the data then it wouldn't transfer over. Recently, a progressive hacker cracked the algorithm and spread it around the Internet prior to being arrested by some of the large DVD companies. Someone will tear anything down that is put up.

Should the owner of the gun shop be charged with murder if a man he sold a gun to decides to shoot another man in cold blood? Of course not, if the shop owner followed all of the laws t

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