REGARDING A NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE WITH LINK AND EXCERPT BELOW:
The music industry is filing a lawsuit against Napster because
it facilitates the free downloading of music from the internet by matching
those who want to download specific music with those who have the music on
file for downloading. Napster is thus enabling free access and recording
of music that would need to be purchased in stores.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204-4584
jwne@astro.temple.edu
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Source: New York Times (NYT)
Author: AMY HARMON
Title: Powerful Music Software Has Industry Worried
Source Date: March 7, 2000
Resource Type: News Article
Description/Keywords: Napster, Music Industry, Music,. Free Access,
Downloading, Lawsuit, Intellectual Property Violations, Copyright
Violations
URL: Listed Below Article Summary
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March 7, 2000
Powerful Music Software Has Industry
Worried
By AMY HARMON
The music industry is already disturbed about how easy it is to copy
music via the Internet without paying for it.
But in recent months Napster has greatly magnified the threat. Acting
like a music search engine, the software makes it easier to find and copy
a far wider array of music. It also makes it easier for individuals to
offer their own music collections to others.
Napster, created last year by a 19-year-old college dropout, has
spread so quickly among college students, traditionally the most avid
consumers of recorded music, that the resulting glut of digital traffic
has overloaded university networks. Dozens of campuses have banned
students from using the service -- not because of copyright issues but to
protect their networks.
But Napster is by no means just a college fad. Every day, about a
million otherwise law-abiding adult citizens are demonstrating no
compunction about using the service to get free what they would have to
pay for in a record store. And their numbers are growing rapidly.
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