Napster, the original creator of free music shareware over the internet, developed a concept that changed the music industry and the consumption of music forever. Napster enabled users to download music from a certain artist in order for them to hear what the artist sounded like before purchasing the entire compact disc. However, people who downloaded a particular artist's entire CD so they would not have to buy it abused this revolutionary concept. While this was not Napster's wish, there was very little they could do to monitor it. The music industry quickly discovered Napster's free distribution of copyrighted material and took them to court. While Napster fought for the relatively new way to obtain music over the internet, the music industry countered them claiming it was wrong to "give away" music for free and would inevitably cut into the entire music industries profits.

How often does a person buy an entire CD just for one song? What is the harm of downloading just one song? Does downloading only one song from a CD even hurt the

paid. Hence, music artists who perform to entertain the public should not care if they

the last time I bought one. I don't download music from the internet... So I'm either

rather have one hundred hits on his website and not get paid than have two hits and get

persuade the reader by stating that as long as you were not going to buy the CD,

music industry's profits? These are the types of questions answered in "Downloading Music: Who Gets Hurt?" by Carlton Vogt, a columnist for the InfoWorld website, written on May 4, 2001.

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