Napster

right except for the fact that the government has the influence to change this. Copyright laws are already in place prohibiting this records versus Napster case (“Real Business”). Napster was a popular peer-to-peer file sharing network that launched in 1999. It had an amazingly large fan-base of music lovers who shared mp3s. The court ruled against Napster and the company was forced to shut down the site after making a public apology and paying $26m in damages. The part that really sticks out as…

I remember at an early age receiving my first cassette tape, which happened to be a gift from my mother. This tape contained the album “Surfin’ Safari” by The Beach Boys and was a life-long favorite of my mothers. I would play this tape over and over again, singing along with the band and dancing around to the sounds of the guitar. This was the earliest memory I have where I can clearly recall when my obsession with music began. From this early point, I began diverging into many different genres…

popular ones being Napster, LimeWire, and The Pirate Bay. All of which have been sued or are currently being sued for copyright infringement over the Internet by major record labels. Napster was the first big file sharing software that got sued and set the precedent for future cases involving file sharing software and file sharing technology. Although there have been earlier file sharing software, Napster were really the pioneers of the peer-to-peer file sharing software world. Napster was…

1011. When the site is used for the purpose it is designed for, users label MP3s and share them with other users. Id. at 1011-12. The court recognized that the premises that Napster controlled and patrolled were limited by the physical practicalities of a website structure. Id. at 1023. The court then recognized that Napster could use its search function to identify file name indices, which gave it adequate ability to find infringing content and remove it for the purpose of policing its premises…

started to download softwares to their computers so they can download music. The main used softwares back then were Kazaa and Napster. In 2003 261 users from both softwares were given lawsuits by the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) for downloading 2 million copyrighted files. Kazaa kept file sharing music to its users but Napster was sued, a few years later Napster started making its users pay for music. People keep downloading music from the internet today because they’re either…

MG6503: Midterm Exam Individual Assignment: Apple’s iTunes Music Store Using Porter’s competitive forces model, and competitive strategies, analyze why Apple’s iTunes became the dominant service in downloadable music. Answer the following questions about the Apple Company and iTunes to help frame your report. The industry in this case is the “downloadable music industry”: How did Apple dominate the market when it was not the first mover in the industry? [Who were the first movers? Give a…

May 1999, when Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker launched software called Napster, a file sharing application through the Internet. In less than a year, Napster allowed more than 20 million people to share music in mp3 format, making it the most popular file sharing software on the Internet at that time. This huge community caused a major issue for the music industry. Since 1999, many sharing programs, which are copycats of Napster, have come and gone. Such as Limewire, Kazaa, BitTorrent and many…

Today’s society is Independent and Lazy; they prefer to choose “convenience” to anything else. It all used to be so simple. People would hear a tune on the radio they liked and buy the physical version of it. However, in recent years this simple process has fragmented into different consumption movements, such as piracy and illegally downloading to on-demand streaming from YouTube. Due to people choosing these free methods, the majority of music consumption today creates little to no money for…

made its debut. “…since 1998 when Shawn Fanning created Napster…Napster represented the first mainstream and user-friendly program to transfer and download these files. Napster, a peer-to-peer (P2P) program, allowed online users to connect with one another and swap copyrighted music, videos, and other files contained on their computers, thus providing a way to get free music online” (Bender 2009). Unfortunately, because of the rise of Napster this has caused a decrease in music sales. From 2000,…

Yanchuan Guo Prof. Emily Perez English 101A February,20 2016 Annotated Bibliography Source 1 Greenblatt, Alan. "Future of the Music Industry." CQ Researcher 21 Nov. 2003: 989-1012. Web. 20 Feb. 2016. Greenblatt’s text explains the impact of free downloading music from the internet in recent years. Many music producers start to sell their licensed music in a low price against piracy. But many people wonder if this way of selling music will remain profitable in the future. He also believes that…