Napster In 1999 Shawn Fanning, an 18-year old college dropout, created a program that would allow him and his friends to share digital music files (MP3s) between each other. His program, named Napster, has sparked a historical debate about copyright law and the Internet. Napster is a free Internet music file-sharing program that allows users to quickly and easily swap files with one another directly, without the use of such a file server. This system …showed first 75 words of 1263 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1263 total…seems small. Stopping Napster would not stop the sharing of digitized music files. Because of its tremendous popularity, there are ! now other Napster-like alternatives, such as Scour, Freenet and Gnutella. Some experts believe that the the best thing that could happen has just came out today and is here to stay. Being a Napster user myself I believe it is a outstanding program that lets you get involved in the music industry today.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**