Jason Garcia
WRC 1023
Alyson Martin
March 24, 2005
File Sharing: Good or Bad?
Napster, Kazaa, Audio Galaxy, Aries, Win MX, Imesh. All these companies are the cause of a great deal of talk in not only the media, but between people all across our country. Everybody is asking questions. How does it work? Who is behind it? What are the laws behind all these court cases? They are all file sharing communities, for music, on the Internet. Quite a few of the major music companies are suing the music sharing communities, like Napster, claiming copyright violations. They say that this is damaging to music sales. These allegations against these companies are far from the truth. Person to person file sharing communities such as Napster, are neither unlawful nor harmful to the music industry. Downloading music on the Internet has been going on for quite a few years. When it first started people would search the Internet and illegally download music files from web pages in a format known......
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