Napster

Napster What would you do if had a access to all the music that you wanted and it was free? Well, in the age of the internet this situation is possible with mp3’s. Mp3’s are compressed digital audio files which has near cd quality sound. It was developed by a German engineering form called Fraunhofer IIS in 1987. It is the most searched word on the internet and the most popular. Mp3’s have …

…On February 12 2001, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against Napster in their effort to keep the major record labels from shutting them down. So as it stands it seems like Napster is shutting down. Even if Napster does get shut down, there are other peer to peer file sharing software so it will be hard to stop people from getting free music. Also with technological advances there will other software better than Napster.