Napster Controversy

Napster Controversy

In 1999, three young men who were passionate about computer programming created a website that would bring an entire industry to its knees. As the three boys, Shawn Fanning, John Fanning, and Sean Fanning, worked hard on their project, they could've never imagined that their invention, a peer to peer music file sharing service called, Napster, would effectively revolutionize the way an entire generation created, delivered, and received its entertainment. Since then, the internet, file sharing, and the music industry has changed drastically. Since Napster's invention in 1999 we've had millions of different similar services come about such as iTunes, Rhapsody. Roxio, YouTube, Spotify and NoiseTrade. Napster's creation and then subsequent demise in 2002, sparked a controversy that still exists today, the effects of music downloading on music industry revenue. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...When thinking about music downloading and streaming we must not only consider legal mediums (which only exist because the practice was illegal after Napster's failure) such as iTunes and Spotify, we must consider the overwhelming presence of illegitimate or illegal streams and downloading mediums such as FrostWire or YouTube2MP3. The music industry revenue streams have been changed, molded, and affected by the music downloading and streaming world in many ways. The music industry makes money through three ways: album/single sales, royalties, and concert revenues. All three of those streams have been effected in various ways some negative and some positive. Musician, and record label founder, Isaac Hanson said it perfectly; "I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time". His quote is confirmed by the data as well as my This partially confirms my theory that the music downloading has completely destroyed the music

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