Napster Inc. Shutdown

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This paper is a semi-opinion paper about why the writer thinks it was irrational for Napster to be forced to close. It presents opinions on why the site was illegal and immoral to the music industry. However, the writer bases his arguments for the continuation of Napster as a simple music lover who enjoyed the freedom of the technology which this company provided him and many others. The issues of piracy and copyright are discussed in detail.

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"For few years, Napster.com was every music lover's favorite site. This was where they could do download their favorite music and share MP3 files with other online users. Napster Inc. was the brainchild of a college dropout Shawn Fanning. Being highly ingenious, he utilized his computer skills to develop a file sharing software and named it Napster. This software enabled users to share music files with each other and thus for sometime they were glad to have found an economical way of listening to their favorite songs. Little did they know that this file sharing would lead to a major lawsuit against Napster, which would result in the closure of the company. Napster was nothing but great software, which made use of compression technique known as MP3, facilitating economical transfer of music files from one computer to another."

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