The legal issue involved in this case is the piracy of music from various artists that is easily accesible to everybody from the website called “Napster”. The moral issue in this case is the music being stolen according to the music companies or the music was just being borrowed by people all over the internet according to Napster supporters. The difference between the two is the legal issue is based on actual evidence like there is a law imposed about this case while the moral issue is based on
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Preface ……………………………………………………………….... Napster was one of the controversial online music file sharing company created by Shawn Fanning‚ a student of Northeastern University‚ Boston. The service and technology allowed users to share MP3 files with other logged in users of Napster via the internet. While it gained popularity for music sharing‚ it attracted the attention of the music industry accusing Napster for breaching plaintiff rights and copyright violations which saw
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Objective: Viability of Napster as a revenue generating company. Case in brief: Napster is a brainchild of Shawn fanning‚ launched on June 1 ‚1999 as a peer-to-peer music downloading program for college students. Napster became a one of the most popular sites on the internet‚ claiming some 15 million users in little more than a year. From the beginning‚ Napster facing so many problems from the RIAA and music industry players. Napster violated the copyrights by allowing users to swap the music recordings
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International University Vietnam Bachelor of Commerce Program Assignment Cover Page Subject Code: | ISYS2110 | Subject Name: | Internet for Business | Location & Campus (SGS or HN) where you study: | RMIT Vietnam | Title of Assignment: | Case Study 3 | Student name: | Nguyen Thi Xuan ThaoTran Minh TienVu Hoang AnhDang Huynh Phuc | Student Number: | S3344173S3324264S3324522S3344162 | Teachers Name: | Rupan Kanti Das | Group Number: | 2 | Assignment due date: | 27/07/2013 | Date
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Case Study Outline of Napster 1) Situational Analysis a. Marketing Objectives X To re-establish Napster as the market leader for online music downloading industry. X To establish a competitive market share in the pay-for-play market. X Regain the majority original customer base‚ and entice new users. b. Target Market X Anyone that has internet access and an interest in music. X All ages‚ races‚ sexes‚ income levels‚ education levels and computer knowledge levels. X Anyone
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Napster & MP3: Redefining The Music Industry Introduction Napster was the first‚ very innovative music technology application that allowed users to download MP3 from the internet and other peers for free‚ or at a cost. Napster strongly adapted the word sharing and put it their own terms to avoid any copyright infringement but it ended badly on their part. This disruptive technology was leading the market and had over 60 million users by 2001. Although very similar technologies were soon
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global music industry forever. Napster was a system which enabled persons to locate music available in the MP3‚ and WMA1 music formats. The website made it possible for its users to freely share their music files through the Internet with other users around the world. however‚ Napster maintained a database of music files held on the computer hard-drives of other registered Napster users. this allowed a user‚ looking for a particular song to send a request to Napster‚ which the software then checked
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As I sat in front of my computer downloading my favorite song from Napster‚ I started to think about how hard it must have been to write a song so sublime with the way the words flow from one another‚ and how talented one must be to do so. I started to think how hard people work on their music for themselves and their fans‚ and how their fans don’t realize what they are doing every time they download a song off the internet. What they don’t realize is that it is messing over the people who worked
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Some people think that it is perfectly fine to download music for free‚ but the majority of people know that it is illegal to do so. Joe Elliott works in the music industry and states “Napster is a form of theft. No doubt about it.” in a response to letter asking about how artist feel about it. Most people would argue and say that the artist do not care about how their music gets out because even with cutting the middleman out they still get their fair share of pay. The truth is most artist make
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Napster is a very popular web site that allowed many users to share music files. The way that Napster shared music files is through peer-to-peer sharing. These files that are called MP3’s (Motion Picture Expert Group 1‚ Audio Layer 3: an algorithm that compresses digital music files) were shared between registered users anonymously at no cost to the users. The format of MP3’s reduces the files allowing users to quickly and easily share these files. MP3’s can also be copied multiple times without
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