Business Law and Ethics Napster Case

Business Law and Ethics Napster Case

Table of content Table of content pages Introduction......................................................................................... 1 The internet piracy Napster case and other peer to peer system........... 1–3 What should be done to stop internet piracy or make it useful for companies......... 3–4 Conclusion................................................................................................................ 4 References...................................................................................................... ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...Users linked to Napster were able to share files with other and download music from almost any other computer present on the network. Napster claimed to have over 20 million users in July 2000, all of them making copies of each others' music. By that time, Napster became the centre of a controversy about online file sharing. Part of Napster's appeal was intertwined with the novelty of digital music: Many technically inclined people enjoyed using computer programs to organize their music collections and also liked being able to "burn" their own CD mixes. But the truly unprecedented aspect of Napster was that it gave users convenient access to a seemingly unlimited selection of music–for free. A lot of fans and users of Napster did not consider the download of music as piracy; they said that Napster was just helping them to share files and not steal them. They also stated that Napster permitted to independent musician to become well known. A teenager quoted in a June 2000 Newsweek feature on Napster summed up the typical view: "People don't think it's anything bad. . . . Or think about it at all." Meanwhile, the creators of Napster claimed that they were not responsible for what users did with their software. The music industry disagreed. "What Napster is doing threatens legitimate E–commerce models and is legally and morally wrong," said Hilary Rosen, then–president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the trade group that represents the U.S.

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