The Napster Controversy |
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"If a new technology has a single present or potential legal use that is of social or commercial importance, then there cannot be a bar against the use of that technology." - Napster sources, in 2000. "Napster is not a technology. It is a business created to facilitate the anonymous theft of music." - Sources at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2000. RIAA vs. Napster
The software then checked the availability of that song with this database, and if available, sent it to the user who requested the song. The service became extremely popular within a short span of time. The website attracted 1.6 million simultaneous users during the height of its popularity in February 2000... 1] MP3 is a computer software compression scheme that allows the digital music in compact discs to be shrunk to a tenth of its size. WMA indicates music files encoded in the Windows Media Player format, which takes half the storage space of MP3 files. |
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