Napster
Shawn Fanning came out from backstage to present an award with a Metallica shirt on. It was one of the funniest moments of the entire award show. The reason it was funny is because Metallica is suing Napster. Shawn Fanning created Napster to make it possible to download music for free, and Metallica is trying to help destroy the program he made. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), many artists, and many labels are all combining to help get rid of Napster. The main dog in the fight is the RIAA. They have tried to work with the RIAA, but they only want to destroy the program. The number of people that use Napster has grown rapidly in the last few months because of the publicity the news has given it. If it weren't for the RIAA suing them, most people wouldn't have even heard of Napster. There are many programs like Napster on the Internet, but the RIAA has set its sights on the most popular one for now. I don't see any reason to shut them down completely. The RIAA and Napster should combine and create a better place to find music on the Internet. People that use Napster think that downloading music is a way of sharing. People get things for free by sharing all the time. Kathryn Balint say
Hartigan, Patti. "Napster Is Stirring Piracy Controversy." Boston Globe 24 Mar. 2000, E1. Mann, Charles C. "The Heavenly Jukebox." The Atlantic Monthly Sep. 2000: 39-59. Balint, Kathryn. "Copyrights Take a Licking on the Net Frontier." San Diego Union-Tribune 8 Sep. 2000, ed. 1,2,7.:A-1. The best way to resolve the battle between Napster and the RIAA is to create a program to make both sides happy. If both sides were getting paid, I'm sure both sides would be happy. Before the recording industry tries to destroy Napster, maybe they "should chip in and buy it" (Guterman 3). Destroying Napster would create one battle after another, and it would never end until the RIAA gave up. I think the RIAA should charge a monthly fee for downloads. I know a lot of people that would pay an amount of about twenty dollars for a month of downloads. "In a recent survey by Webnoise, the online research company, 58 percent of Napster users said they'd pay a monthly subscription fee for the service" (Segal A1). If most people will pay, why wouldn't the RIAA want to try and make money off the new technology instead of destroying it? The new combined site could sell T-shirts, concert tickets, and more. There is no end to the amount of money they could make. The business sales would shoot through the roof because of the major increase of computer use. Every major sponsor would want to put its name on the site. The site could then have sponsors like Nike or Pepsi. The money the RIAA could make would be outrageous. Paying a monthly fee for music is the pathway of the future. s, "Ever since the advent of tap
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