Napster allowed the trading of any type of media through the use of servers which it owned and operated. ... Within months Napster servers exploded, at its peak Napster had 300 million users trading on it at once. ... Since OpenNap servers were centralized, they could easily be targeted for enforcement. A large conglomerate of OpenNap servers formed "music city". ... However iMesh servers are located in Isreal, outside of the RIAA's jurisdiction. ...

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With Napster, the files stay on the client machine, never passing through the server. The server provides the ability to search for particular files and initiate a direct transfer between the clients. ...

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By definition, peer-to-peer means that all computers connected to the network act as "servers."" ... On a peer-to-peer network there is no central server with all of the files. ... Each time somebody logged on to the system, an index of their MP3 files was sent to the Napster server. When a user searches for a song, the database on the Napster server tells the user who has the song they are looking for. ... The only data contained on the Napster server was the indexes of the files (Skolnik 3). ...

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MP3s, at first, were available on unstable servers that were neither efficient nor fast. In the early 1990s, because of their fast Internet connections, college students were the only people able to download MP3s from web-based servers. ... Napster never has copyrighted material in their possession, because its central server only contains directory and index files. ...

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Software developers and researchers are struggling to find new ways to reliably, efficiently and securely share data across wide area networks that are cursed by high latency nodes (also known as slow servers). A decentralized network has no central authority, which means that it can operate with freely running servers alone (peer-to-peer, or P2P). ...

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A perfect example of technology backfiring on us is expressed in the recent events involving the file-sharing network known to many as "Kazaa". As many online users know, Kazaa is a program that enables people to share their files, and in turn, download others'. In the few years it has been availabl...

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Although the Kazaa network is currently still running, recently many of us have deleted it from our computers. Kazaa is the latest most popular P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing program, which allows users to upload files(including songs, videos, software, etc.) onto the Kazaa network and download fil...

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Peer to Peer File Sharing Peer to Peer File Sharing With broadband Internet service becoming more accessible and affordable, there is an ever-growing group of internet users who are looking to exchange files with other users of similar interests. The concept "peer to peer file sharing" becam...

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Freedom in the Internet Age The bill of rights protects our freedom and guards our rights to say, write, and ultimately share whatever we want without government interference and censorship. Censorship is the most dangerous action that a government can impose on a free population. In the aftermat...

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Pirates of the World Wide Web The rapidly growing rate of the internet piracy of music, movies, software and video games has their respective companies sweating bullets. Internet piracy is the illegal copying of a product. Music began being recorded and sold when Columbia Records introduced...

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Apparently the close down Napster was really being against by those 50,000,000users and it was such a big disappointment because banning Napster is not the final say on the issue.Whether or not Napster survives, the technology is now out there.Napster "s gone, other Napster clones will get popular,OpenNap,Freenet,Gnutella,musicity, Powernap..etc.They can't fight the technology.Even if people can't download free music on the internet at all, there still exists the music file swapping services that let users search the computers of other people in the networ...

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It took a mere few months to create this stunning new technology, coupling a music search function with a file sharing system, along with instant messaging to facilitate communication.1 Napster was created for one reason, to allow computer users to swap music mp3 files with one another directly, without having to go through a centralized file server or middleman. ...

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