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"Napster, the software application that ignited the music file-trading frenzy, came to an apparent end on Tuesday after its board of directors nixed a sale that would have kept the company afloat (King 1). ... Napster and its founder stood for everything the new medium of the internet encompassed: youth, radical change, and the free exchange of information (King 4). While Napster was a must have program for music lovers everywhere, the music industry itself was not as thrilled about the program. The invention of Napster not only effect the music industry by way of compact disc sales, but has also forced new laws to be put in place, new organizations to be founded, and has also helped new musicians get their music out to the public.
To understand the influence Napster has had on the music industry, one must first understand how Napster the program itself functions. Napster is a program created by Shaun Fanning that allows users to share . ... The search engine would combine all computers with users registered to the Napster program. ... Fanning, while only 18 at the time, created the program Napster, and uploaded it to www. ... Napster (Fannings high school nickname due to his nappy hair) was soon to unite over twenty eight million people.
The invention of Napster has upset more then a fair share of recording artists. One of Napster’s biggest opposition is the band Metallica. Metallica and drummer Lars Ulrich first got upset when some of their unreleased music turned up on Napster. When Metallica found out that 317,000 users had Metallica songs downloaded on their computers they slapped Napster with 60,000 pages of copy write violations(Napster 2) Rapper Dr.
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