Shutting Down Napster is Not The Solution

Almost everyone has heard of Napster and its long debated issue’s of file swapping and sharing. Considering Napster’s short-lived existence of about a year and a half, they have certainly opened many people’s eyes. Some say the file swapping that Napster allows everyone to do is illegal; others says it’s just another thing to do on the internet. Napster has done much good for the internet, adding one more good thing that the internet can do for us. Napster has raised several intense controversial issues in the music industry of copyright infringement laws. Although shutting down Napster is not the solution; some agreement between the plaintiffs and Napster should come about.

Napster is a medium for trading and/or swapping of music files over the internet. Napster has about 20 million users worldwide (Grimaldi Online). This phenomenon called Napster has taking the entire internet by storm. Just think all Napster is, is a program designed by a nineteen-year-old kid, a college dropout. Who would have thought that it would cause so much excitement in the music industry (Online)?

Napster has allowed millions of people to be able to share their music over the internet. In these

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