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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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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