Napster

Napster In 1999 Shawn Fanning, an 18-year old college dropout, created a program that would allow him and his friends to share digital music files (MP3s) between each other. His program, named Napster, has sparked a historical debate about copyright law and the Internet. Napster is a free Internet music file-sharing program that allows users to quickly and easily swap files with one another directly, without the use of such a file server. This system …

…seems small. Stopping Napster would not stop the sharing of digitized music files. Because of its tremendous popularity, there are ! now other Napster-like alternatives, such as Scour, Freenet and Gnutella. Some experts believe that the the best thing that could happen has just came out today and is here to stay. Being a Napster user myself I believe it is a outstanding program that lets you get involved in the music industry today.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**