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Controversial Topic Recording Industry
1,078 wordsThe Internet provides many different types of information on virtually any topic possible. There are many components that make up the Internet besides text. Software that is available on the Internet is ever-changing and is rapidly growing. Napster is a software company located in California, that distributes music, to users all over the world. Napster is among the many programs that enables you to "share" audio files with people all over the world on the Internet. The controversial topic is, wh...
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Mp 3 Format Mp 3 Files
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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21 St Century Listen To Music
1,357 wordsThe evolution of music in the 21 st Century has set a precedence for the future music, as we know it. Inspired by a fire and passion that revs up the soul; music is the soundtrack to our lives. When we are happy we listen to music, when we are sad we listen to music. Music satisfies and spawns a plethora of emotions that are held bottled up with in us; some use music as a vehicle to express deep thoughts and emotions, others use it to just let off steam that is built from the stress that life br...
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Mp 3 Files State Of California
1,588 wordsThe trading of MP 3 's or digital music over the Internet is always going to be prevalent in music, and it is an unrealistic goal to try to control. The cost of controlling the piracy issues over the Internet would cost record companies more money than what they are losing due to MP 3 trading. The record industry is trying to fight the major sites and companies in court with copyright suits. Although downloading music over the Internet and playing it back on computer or portable digital music pl...
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Day To Day File Sharing
2,318 wordsResearch of Copyright involving Entertainment Law thing the legal issue to Universal Music suing of Grouper. com and Bolt. com. No of pages 4 style MLA Abstract and bibliography, No of sources: 6 3 books and 3 internet sources Deadline Nov 11 Dawn of computers and internet technology and rapid economic and communication development has compelled the society to access to modern information technology in their day to day life. Development in the communication technology especially the internet era...
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Intellectual Property Rights Peer To Peer
2,284 words... EU copyright directive forbids peer to-peer, claiming it is an infringement of the directive. But not all the European member states have put into practice the directive in national legislation. Though the member state France initially passed two amendments authorizing the exchange of copies on the internet on December, 22, 2005. Later the French government withdrew its amendments and declared it as illegal any P 2 P client evidently aimed at sharing copyrighted material. European law was co...
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Rolling Stone Magazine Difficult To Understand
2,640 wordsCopyrights are designed to provide some form of protection against unauthorized use of original informational materials. The rapid shift of information production and distribution to electronic form, with its corresponding ease of copying, naturally makes copyright-dependent industries nervous. Much talk in the news and on the net these days is about the future of copyright law, a law developed in an age of print and now perhaps too tied to that medium to have ready application to today? s infor...
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Breaking The Law Cd Sales
1,105 wordsBREAKINGDebate On Napster &# 65279; NAPSTER: BREAKING THE CONSTITUTION The Napster software, which launched in 1999, allows people to share digital music files (MP 3) between each other. This Internet program has sparked a historical debate about copyright law and the Internet. Copyright owners strongly believe that sharing these files via Napster is stealing (TIME). Downloading music against the wishes of an artist or producer is breaking the law. Some believe that it is not stealing or illegal...
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First Amendment Rights Hundred Thousand People
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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Shawn Fanning File Sharing
326 wordsHistory of Napster Napster is an application that allows users to swap music with each other by using a search option which finds the songs requested by the user and then allows users to download them from other users at no cost. As of now, Napster is the world s leading file sharing community. There are 38 million users worldwide (San Jose Mercury News, November 1, 2000, pg. 1, 20 A) and 1 million new users join the music community each day. A 19 -year-old college student by the name of Shawn F...
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File Sharing Music Files
1,832 wordsThe Napster Dilemma By Oscar E. Casta? eda Introduction: What I call the Napster dilemma is a problem that involves new technological concepts and redefinitions of old ideas. This is the case for many legal and moral conflicts that are arising with the outcome of new possibilities and options made accessible by informatics and telecommunications. The importance of these problems has caught so much attention that in 1998, President Clinton signed the new Digital Millennium Copyright Act, where a ...
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N Pag Music Files
718 wordsA teenager named Tom, walked into a music store last week and went straight to his favorite music section. After looking around for a short amount of time he spotted the CD he wanted. Tom then tore the magnetic sensor off the front of the package, stuffed the CD down his pants and then proceeded to walk through the front doors of the store, stealing the CD. Most people would say what Tom did was against the law and he should be punished for the crime. What if I was to say this crime happens thou...
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Intellectual Property Rights Mp 3 Files
2,056 wordsNapster Napster Napster s Battle Napster has become a part of all most every individuals vocabulary. It can be argued that Napster is the same blank tapes, meaning that both can record music from the original format and be used to play later. Also, people who think that Napster should be shut down say that it is taking money away from the artist and their royalties. It is subject debated; whether or not Napster has violated the copyright laws set forth by the record companies. This is to be dete...
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Appeals Court Music Files
309 wordsRuling could doom Napster A federal court ruled yesterday that Napster must stop allowing users to swap copyrighted music. Napster officials said they would keep operating while they fought in court. Napster was created by a teenager in 1999. Napster's software lets computer users trade audio files by connecting with one another. The music is all for free. You don t have to make any payment to the artists or record companies who produced the music. Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled in May that Naps...
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Napster Users Record Companies
931 wordsNapster vs. Record Companies The evolution of technologies associated with the Internet has had a great influence on our society by allowing its users to access a great variety of valuable resources without leaving the comfort of their home. Simply by connecting our computer to a server through our phone lines, we are given an endless choice of what to do with our time online. We could purchase items ranging from books and tickets to sporting events and concerts to electronics and clothing. We c...
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