Rip Mix Burn Steal

Rip. Mix. Burn. Steal? After a dramatic federal court ruling that has shut Napster down, will have an effect on sharing music files on the internet. Napster has been one of the hottest sites on the internet in the last eighteen months, with more than fifty million users. Napster allows anyone with a CD burner to and a modem to download free music and burn it to a CD. The main purpose or as it …showed first 75 words of 587 total…

…showed last 75 words of 587 total…currently operating under a court order to filter out certain songs so that artist’s copyrights are not infringed upon. BMG music has also invested in Napster. With plans to develop a sort of legitimate subscription fee-based site with the support of major record label companies. Napster has also been forced to pay publisher twenty six million for previous unauthorized work and another ten million in advance toward future royalties generated from its subscription service.