Intellectual Property

Essay # 46303

An examination of the peer-to-peer file sharing of the past and the future of peer-to-peer file sharing from a legal perspective.

1,973 words () | 6 sources | MLA | 2002 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper looks at the fall of Napster, the legal arguments regarding the rise of its subsidiaries, and the inevitability of the continuing free-share environment. This paper is written with a legal mindset in a college student's view.

From the Paper:

"College. A place where young people, with a burning desire to further their education, congregate. But is it also a breeding ground for criminals? As college freshman flock to their new campuses every fall, toting with them the latest in laptops and desktop personal computers, they arrive with the notion of file sharing already implanted in them. So we see that it isn't institution that is to blame for the implantation of the criminal (assuming it is criminal) ideas, but that the high speed networks of the institution are allowing and maybe furthering the students use of these illegal peer to peer (P2P) networks."