Kazaa

soon, they decided that they needed to stop Napster. Little by little, Napster was being less used and it became harder to find the songs wanted until nobody used it anymore. When all of this was happening, other applications were made available. Kazaa and Grokster are probably the two most used Peer to Peer, or P2P file sharing networks you can find, although there are many others. The Recording Industry Association of

that all these illegal sites doesn’t charge a fee, and have a more diverse selection than the sites you have to pay for. So in doing this, basically will bring in the suckers and will detract the people who know otherwise. Other companies such as Kazaa or Morpheous will charge a minimum, but theses programs are slower and not as

Downloadable Music Factor Throughout the computer industry there has been many advances. It all started out with downloadable computer games, after that there was free game sites, and to complete the advancement of peoples understanding the internet came downloadable music. The millions of dollars in legal fees was a waste of money for the recording industry. Napster’s court trial went on for a long period of time, and lawyers and fines were just ridiculous. Free recording is a great instatement

CASE STUDY The Pirate Bay: The World's Most Resilient Copyright Infringer? he Pirate Bay (TPB), a Swedish Web site (Piratebay.org), is one of the world's most popular pirated music and content sites, offering free access to millions of copyrighted songs and thousands of copyrighted Hollywood movies. In June 2011, The Pirate Bay reported that it h ad about 5 million registered users, and 25 million non-registered users (so-called "free riders"). To put that number in p erspective, consider

decentralized. An example of this principle is when MGM a filed a lawsuit against Napster a decentralized organization, that caused the later to file for bankruptcy, but this incident did not stop people downloading music for free. A more decentralized Kazaa emerges and millions of free music were copied and downloaded (p.21). (2) It’s easy to mistake starfish for spiders. Like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), there is no leader. Everyone is in charge. When you become a member; you become part of the leadership

This way it is safe and sound behind a password for you and your eyes only. It also lets people that want to get their amateur pictures out there. The Cons of Pornography on the internet is that it is very easy to get to especially if you have Kazaa, or a downloading program similar, because they have tons of them on those downloading programs even child pornography. I also believe that this has given a rise to the child porn industry if there is such a thing. It has also given a rise in things

According to New York Times, she was fined more than a million dollars, which is five times the amount than her previous penalty, because she was held responsible for downloading and sharing songs through “Kazaa, a peer to peer file sharing,” that breaks the media companies’ copyrights (Itzkoff C2). The court wants her to pay such a huge amount of fine which is totally ridiculous. Her attorneys even argued that “the jury’s verdict is unconstitutional and out

The Rise and fall of Napster It started as an accident. Shawn Fanning was just experimenting and thinking of an easier to go through a search engine for music. What was a simple idea turned out to be a phenomenon in the Internet world. The creation of Napster led to many problems and brought about new issues that involved the entertainment industry and piracy laws. Napster is a software where a compilation of all of its user's files are held in a central unit and each user is able to use its

Social media and the internet have changed the way people in the music industry do business, along with how people in society receive music. People in the music industry have had to reevaluate everything that they have done in the past, in order to adapt to how things are now. Artists are now taking control of their own careers; because of that major labels are not making as much money as they did before. Through the internet and social media artists have been releasing there own music on sites

Digital music piracy has been a worry of the music industry since the creation of Napster in 1998. Piracy is the act of stealing something that does not belong to you which has been outlined in our society as something that is bad or against the law. There are many articles out there that highlight music piracy but four main important ones include: “The Music Industry on (the) Line? Surviving Music Piracy in a Digital Era” by Jelle Janssens, “Neutralizing Music Piracy: An Empirical Examination” by