1. Music and Napster
On the other side, the MP3 friendly consumer is listening to more music and different types of music than ever before due to the dramatic reduction in price and the communal atmosphere that has sprung up around the internet sites for shared music files. Napster, the first Internet site to allow users to share MP3 files with each other for free, started an immediate battle between the record industry, artists, and consumers and producers of file sharing sites about the piracy of music. ... Consumers of MP3's and sites similar to Napster have benefited due to the access to an abundance of ...
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