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The latest wave of technology to effect music has caused record labels and artists to rethink the whole structure of the music industry. Compressed files on a computer allow a person to store a great deal of music while taking up a very small amount of memory. This technology, along with the Internet and CD burners, has dramatically decreased the amount of sales for the record industry. 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. This battle has put consumers at an opposing viewpoint of record labels and has left artists struggling to choose sides. The independent musician has felt the struggle more than anyone else in the music industry. There is about to be either a creative boom in music or a burst that will leave artists struggling to be heard much less earn a living off of their work. "The creativity and passion of these musicians fuels music around us. Without them, there would be no music."" (Pfahl, 2001).
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The whole creation of Napster did more than just cause conflict among people about copyright laws; it also created an enormous musical community that was completely virtual. Today several other copycat sites have sprung up and the communities continue to build based of similar musical tastes. People's ties to each other were very loosely based and anonymous, like many virtual communities, but spread so quickly and widely that a whole generation of Internet friendly and music loving people formed in a matter of months. Napster, although it only lasted a couple of years, became a social phenomenon that will not soon be forgotten.
It was about getting people to hear our music." ... Its not piracy when kids swap music over the internet. ... But music sales increased 8%. So how is Napster hurting the music industry? ... The radio or Napster website is a way for people to experience new music before purchasing the CD. ...
One of the hottest new trends in technology is the music provider Napster. ... There are several other music sharing communities besides Napster. ... Since then, I have downloaded about one thousand separate music files. ... The record labels have been persistent in their legal attack on Napster in attempts to shut down the music community. ... It brings people together through the sharing of music....
When a program developed by Shawn Fanning, called Napster, came into existence, it turned an entire music industry upside down. ... The implications of this mean that Napster itself, never has any music present on their network, but rather it creates an index for others. ... MP3's are music files. Who creates music files? ... Both formats play music. ...
In January 1999, in a dorm room at North Eastern University in Boston, Shawn Fanning, a 19 year old music and computer enthusiast created the first versions of Napster. ... Napster was born. ... In 2001 it was reported that somewhere over 50 million users were registered through Napster, all capable of downloading music at their will. ... By being able to download free music from Napster you are taking away some of the rights of the musicians and the music industry as a whole to make revenue off their product. ... As it stands Napster could collapse the music industry if rules are not create...
Is downloading songs off of Napster morally acceptable? ... The downloading of music off of Napster is not morally acceptable. ... Works such as poetry, movies, CD-ROMs, video games, plays, paintings, sheet music, and yes, recorded music performances can be protected by a copyright. ... Instead of working hard to earn money to buy the products that we want (recorded music performances) some chose to steal instead. ... Let's look at Napsters court experiences. ...
Is downloading songs off of Napster morally acceptable? To answer that question one needs to look into how Napster originated. Napster began in the dorm room of music and computer enthuisiust Shawn Fanning, a 19 year-old college freshman at North Eastern University in Boston in 1999. ... By being able to download free music off of Napster you are taking away some of the rights of the musicians and the music industry as a whole to make revenue off their product. ... In conclusion, the questions of the morality of Napster is a matter of opinion. ...
Downloading and sharing music files through such programs like Napster and Kazaa became more controversial as its popularity grew. ... There is also an article in chapter seven that discusses the exact issue of Napster and its ability to freely download and share music files. ... Fanning is the creator of Napster, which was the first highly recognized and issued form of downloading and sharing music files. ... They are accusing Napster of allowing users to make unauthorized copies of music that belongs to RIAA artists. ... Metallica Files Lawsuit Not only did the RIAA file a lawsuit but ...
Let me talk you about a little history about music file-sharing. ... Napster would forever change the way people would listen, share and acquire music, and the music industry would never again be the same. Napster, launched early in 1999, allowed Internet users to share and download MP3 files (music files) directly from any computer connected to the Napster network. ... The reaction from recording artists, record labels and other music industry players has been varied, but primarily anti-Napster. ... Several other programs were release using the same concept as Napster but not only using mu...
Napster will always be the most widely known music program and it has inspired other internet users to make programs like it because they believe music should be free also. ... Ulrich gave Napster 60,000 pages of Napster users and had them banned from Napsters server (Metallica 1). ... The programs current run is a lot longer than Napsters, but once the music industry is done with Napster, Kazaa will be brought to an end also. ... (Napster 2). Napsters affect on society has made some people think downloading music will get them arrested. ...
Napster would forever change the way people would listen, share and acquire music, and the music industry would never again be the same. ... Although Napster does challenge the traditional distribution of music (CDs, cassettes, etc), whether this should be viewed as a threat or simply a new medium to be exploited by the music industry is another issue. The fact that Napster is free and more convenient than visiting a record store makes it an appealing way to get music for consumers to get their music, rather than going to the local music store and coughing up 15 dollars. ... While Napster ...