It is a fact that thousands of people were, through Napster, making thousands of copies of copyrighted songs, and neither the music industry nor the artists got any money in return for those copies. (This type of piracy is still happening now, through sites other than Napster.)
Originally, file-sharing was an unorganized activity. The launch of Napster in 1999 changed everything. That year, college student Shawn Fanning developed a system that made peer-to-peer sharing of MP3 music files easy to do. Named after Fanning's nickname, the development caused an explosion in the popularity of ...
Feb 23, 2013 - As a new film tells the story of Napster, Tom Lamont recalls the incredible sense of liberation he felt as a young music fan, suddenly able to download any ...
・・・・・・・・・・・・ the company after an email was unearthed in which he referred to file-sharers as pirates, something Napster's lawyers were always careful to deny.