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1,516 wordsThis chapter introduces the dispute between Napster, Inc. , and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the copyrights issue, the subsequent effects on todays music industry sales, and the abuse of such software on college campuses across America. Napster, Inc. was founded by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker in 1999. Shawn was only 19 years old when he wrote the program Napster at Northeastern University. Napster is a software program that allows individuals to freely trade sound file...
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1,999 wordsWhat copyright is may be summed up as: 3. 1 [... ] a type of property right which is founded on a person's creative skill and labour. It is designed to prevent the unauthorised use by others of a work, that is, the original form in which an idea or information has been expressed by the creator. 3. 2 Copyright is not a tangible thing. It is made up of a bundle of exclusive economic rights to do certain acts with an original work or other copyright subject-matter. FN 9 FN 9 Copyright Law in Austra...
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1,482 wordsMotion-Picture-Experts Group, Audio Level 3 (or more commonly known as MP 3) -- this new form of audio compression has become a wide topic of controversy over the past few years. MP 3 has caused a wide debate over legal and ethical issues since its release in January 1995. Many court cases and lawsuits have resulted from the release of this new technological innovation and there are sure to be many more. MP 3 s are highly compressed audio files that can be stored on any computer storage medium. ...
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1,684 wordsIn 1998, a computer science major at Northeastern University, sat in front of his computer and started to create a program that would help the common man, spark controversy, and change and revolutionize the music industry. His name is Shawn Fanning, and his creation is Napster. 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, allows Internet users to share and download MP 3 fi...
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1,566 words... member of the Grammy-nominated band Garbage who have put up rarities on their site, feels that the technology is "a cool way to distribute things that otherwise may not get released. In the process of recording, you end up with a lot of odds and ends that may be of interest to fans but aren't necessarily something you want to put out as an official release" (Goodman 25). Chuck D, who is well known for being unhappy with his former record label and embraces the technology of the Internet, acc...
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1,184 words... eople would be more likely to purchase them. In this case, Napster could continue, serving it's purpose as a 'try before you buy' application for the music industry. Just as people still purchase and rent videos even though they can record movies from TV and borrow tapes from friends, people will continue to buy CDs, and will be encouraged even more so if prices are reduced and extras given away with the music. Music industry players such as BMG (Bertelsmann Music Group), EMI, Sony and Unive...
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2,882 wordsDigital Bootlegging and Its effects on the Music Industry Before the advent of MP 3 files it would require 1. 400 megabytes to represent just one second of stereo music in CD quality. MP 3 is short for Moving Picture Experts Group, Audio Layer III. Standard MP 3 compression is at a 10: 1 ratio, and yields a file that is about 4 MB for a three-minute track. In 1987, Prof. Dieter Seitzer of the University of Erlangen created the MP 3 format to replace pre-existing MPEG audio coding. The reason MP ...
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3,009 wordsIs trading digital music using Napster Online legal or copyright infringement? First, we must find out what Napster is and who created it. Napster is a combination of? the features of existing programs: the instant-messaging system of Internet Relay Chat, the file-sharing functions of Microsoft Windows and the advanced searching and filtering capabilities of various search engines? (Greenfield). Basically all it is, is a really cool little program that a person can download off of the internet f...
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435 wordsThe Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is suing Napster for allegedly enabling music piracy through its proprietary Music Share program. Music Share allows music lovers to open up their stores of MP 3 files to all other Napster users. Whenever a user is online, his MP 3 s are up for grabs, with the only stipulation being that users upload a file for each one that they download. The RIAA says that many of the shared MP 3 s are illegal bootlegs, but Napster insists that it does not, ...
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1,939 wordsNapster: To Be or Not To Be Napster (web) is a company that operates exclusively online as a virtual music forum. Napster not only allows its visitors the ability to participate in ongoing discussions through its message board forums and online virtual chat rooms, but it also allows its visitors the capability to exchange music files (MP 3 s) with other Internet users. Because Napster is a virtual online public forum, Napster should be protected under the First Amendment. Under the First Amendme...
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1,373 wordsImagine a world where you did not go to the music store and buy a CD. You would have $ 15 extra in your pocket every time. Now you ask why would I not go out and buy CDs? I like to hear groups I like. The answer is simple. There is something new out there in the world that makes it possible for you to never buy a CD again. There is only one catch: its illegal. Illegal in the sense that you are committing copyright infringement every time you participate in this new format. Mp 3 is this file form...
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3,028 wordsMP 3 s: Friend or Foe? MP 3 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 just bad, but horrific to musicians that want to make it to the top. MP 3 s are used widely by teenagers on their home computer, usually illegally and are constantly being threatened by the producer of the music. Billions of dollars are being lost due to the Internet craze of the MP 3 technology mainly because no one is bu...
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2,232 wordsWith the creation of new technologies and forums of media, industries must respond and adapt to the changes they create. The new technology of MP 3 s challenges the music recording industry today. MP 3 stands for Motion Picture Expert Group Audio Layer 3 and, for those who do not know, is an audio file format that gives near CD quality sound compressed ten times that of the current standard. MP 3 lists as one of the top five searched terms on Lycos and Hotbot (Kirchofer 1) and ranks up there wit...
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1,208 wordsThe regulation of music in America has been increasing significantly with the advancements of such companies like Napster and the technology to burn or copy cd s. Bands such as Metallica and rap singer Dr. Dre have been some of the leaders in the fight to eliminate the piracy of copyrighted music. Along with these regulations, the parental advisory system that has been in effect since the mid 1980 s has also taking many steps to update their system to help parents identify music which includes e...
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977 wordsNapster: Company Meltdown? A nineteen-year-old entrepreneur, named Shawn Fanning, created Napster in 1999 as an elaborate plan to download music better from the Internet. Since its creation, Napster has caught on in the cyber world like wildfire. Ask any college student if he or she has heard of this company and you will hear a resounding YES! . Napster is a music file (MP 3) downloader for the Internet that allows users to find other users MP 3 s and downloads them directly from the other user ...
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315 wordsBy: Alexis Napster Napster By: Alexis Alexis Frank IST 333 August 9, 2000 Napster In less than one year Napster has become the hot application that has some 20 million users running to their computer. Napster is currently fighting for its life against a court ordered shutdown, but it seems that people will find a way to share and download on line music no matter what. Napster is a music file sharing program that allows you to convert your desktop into a web based trading room. You have a persona...
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2,216 words/ Copyrighted Napster NapsteCopyrighted we stand, Pirated we fall: This is what the music industry would have people believe. Welcome to the information age! Any information is available to whoever wants it, needs it, or just has a lot of time to spend looking for it. The latest victim of the information age is the RIAA, The Recording Industry Association of America. The argument: The right to trade RIAA artists songs using the Napster server in MP 3 format over the Internet. Can the furor over ...
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1,268 wordsEnglish 001 Section Napster Ryan Jacobson English 001 Section 1017 The Argument With Napster The Napster software (web), launched early in 1999, allows internet users to share and download MP 3 files directly from any computer connected to the Napster network. The software is used by downloading a program from the Napster site and then connecting to the network through this software, which allows sharing (uploading and downloading) of MP 3 files between all users connected to the network. While ...
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1,223 wordsThe Internet. It is a vast network of millions of users, surfing and sharing billions of files, all day, every day. This scares many copyright holders out of their minds. After all, there is virtually no one to protect these copyright holders from the misuse of their intellectual property certainly not the dinosaur that is our government. But, as Scott Sullivan, writer for The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin stated, as history has proven, freedom and technological and societal advances usually come...
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802 wordsNapster Under Glass Online, you can find a digital version of any song that your heart desires from classical to hardcore to country in less than 10 15 minutes. Terabytes or 1000000000000 (a trillion) bytes of Mp 3 files can be found online at peak times, which roughly translates to 330, 000 songs in 3100 different collections. A Mp 3 is an individual song converted into a digital format and playable on computers. A popular program easily accessible on the Internet is called Napster. After you d...
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