1. Napster
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). ...
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. ...
Are MP3's a breakthrough in technology or are they just another bomb waiting to explode on us? Some say they are good while others argue that they are not only bad but horrific to musicians that want to make it to the top. MP3's are used widely by teenagers on their personal computer and are const...
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...
Look at this person. He seems like an average teenager, possibly doing homework on his laptop. Maybe just simply searching the web? Well, what if I told you that he's not doing homework, because he dropped out of college just recently. What if I told you that he is writing code? Code for what y...
