Napster

Napster By: Alexis Alexis Frank IST 333 August 9,2000 Napster In less than one year Napster has become the hot application that has some 20 million users running to their computer. Napster is currently fighting for its life against a court ordered shutdown, but it seems that people will find a way to share and downloud on line music no matter what. Napster is a music file sharing program that allows you to convert your desktop into a …

…site for illegal content, which means every site would have to go through the RIAA's database before they could do a search. In 1998 the RIAA tried to sue Diamond Multimedia for distributing their famous "Rio" portable MP3 player. The RIAA claimed the Rio was exclusively used to listen to illegally copied MP3 files, but they lost that case. The lasted legal action against Napster has been a injunction that is being seeked by the RIAA.