Could Napster Be Nicked?
Recently, Napster, Inc., the online song sharing company came very close to being shut down for copyright infringement. I believe that it would be a mistake to shut down these online, song-sharing, companies as they provide a number of benefits to society. Some examples of these benefits include exposing listeners to a wider variety of music and not limiting their listening to one or two particular types of music as well as providing new bands and artists that are not yet as widely known a way to get their music exposed faster. Companies like Napster and MP3.com give bands and artists the ability to test new types of music and judge listener appreciation by the amount of downloads. CD sales since Napster became popular have also increased. After a fair amount of research I believe that companies such as these should be allowed to continue sharing songs as the benefits they provide outweigh the negative aspects. Napster is an online, music-trading program created by Shawn Fanning, a student at Northeastern University. Fanning developed the program in January of 1999 and after the immediate success of the beta version, realized its commercial potenti
Napster provides a way for people to sample music for free and most people, if they like what they hear, will go and purchase the music in a store as increasing sales have shown. It also provides a way for new and up and coming bands to test their new material and judge its appreciation by the number of people who download it. This allows them to get a large amount of exposure while not having to pay large amounts to a record label when they are first starting out. The question of the legality of Napster and other programs like it is pretty much left up to the person who chooses whether or not they will download a song. It is very important to see that Napster does not make any MP3 materials available over the Internet. It merely provides computer software that allows its users to choose which files to make available to each other and which files to download. Therefore, in my opinion, it is not Napster that is violating copyright laws, but rather the users on Napster. If nothing else, Napster gets people excited about music again and they are getting turned on to new music also. Some artists have even begun to release tracks solely on the Internet. The Offspring in early 2000 released a track on its we
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