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Informative Speech
I am sure that all of you here hate dishing out $20 of your hard-earned money every time you want the newest and hottest pop or rap song on CD. ... He named his program Napster, an alias he had previously been using on the Internet.
After its launch, Napster quickly became the world’s largest music sharing community. Napster allows users to swap MP3 files that are stored on their hard drives. ... Users log onto Napster and share their MP3’s with the Napster community as long as they are logged in. Napster merely provides a central connection and a database that lists all of the available mp3’s of its users.
Napster itself does not provide any of the music. ... Napster peeks into a user’s hard drive and publishes a list of all the songs it finds there onto a central database.” Users can then search for the songs that they wish to download from any user that is currently logged in to Napster.
This format has made it much easier to find specific MP3s on the Internet and has made Napster a huge success. Napster is very popular on college campuses and with music fans around the country.
In December of 1999, the Recording Industry Association of America, also known as the RIAA, filed a lawsuit against Napster. ... They claim the downloading of MP3s is piracy and Napster is fostering it. ... Napster, however, is being charged with what is known as “Contributory” and “Vicarious” liability. ...
Napster is not denying that their users can possibly violate copyright laws. Napster posts a warning stating that it is illegal to copy and distribute unauthorized and copyrighted materials. Metallica, led by their drummer Lars Ulrich, provided Napster with the names of over 300,000 of their users who were trading Metallica songs. Napster kicked those people off of their network. ... Dre provided names of users trading his music, Napster responded in the same way. ... They have decided to sue Napster and charge them with this vicarious liability.
Napster is claiming that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act should protect them. ...
Napster is claiming that they are essentially an ISP. ... If in the course of this activity the users trade copyrighted songs, Napster feels that they cannot be held responsible.
Approximate Word count = 1835
Approximate Pages = 7.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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