Napster Wars
“A young Shaun Fanning, attending school in high school in Harwich, Massachusetts had two loves: 1) Sports ( baseball, basketball, and tennis ) and 2) computers. As his curiosity grew for computers, he decided to stop his sport playing, and spend most of his time working with computers. He primarily focused on two aspects of the computer, programming and the Internet. His computer fascination grew into an obsession throughout high school. His freshman year at Northeast University in 1998 was spent trying to enter computer science classes higher than the entry level. Not finding anything challenging about the courses, he decided to start writing a Windows based program in his spare time. He started spending time in IRC chat rooms with experienced programmers who knew the tricks of the trade. Shaun’s roommate loved MP3’s, but disliked the unreliability of old sites, and having to search endlessly for songs that were usually not even available. With this in mind, and his developing skills as a programmer and his curiosity for the internet, Shaun decided to write the Beta for Napster. He used the idea of all users being connected to one central computer server, yet all having access to each other’s mu
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Eminem Metallica, Fifth Amendment, Shaun Fannings, Northeast University, Beta Napster, America RIAA, Supreme Court, Harwich Massachusetts, Bill Rights, Internet Using, fifth amendment, individual rights, music files, recording industry association, industry association america, search engines, bill rights, amendment aspect, supreme court, life liberty property, freely giving, giving royalties owners, deprived life, deprived life liberty, held liable,
Approximate Word count = 1486
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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