Napster
スローガン： No Music, No Life
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 ...