III. Price 5 IV. Place: 5 V. People 6 VI. Process 6 VII. Physical evidence 7 VIII. Reference: 8 I. Product Napster offers music tracks that can be stored on customer’s hard disks in MP3 format. According to Chaffer 2009‚ this type of product is digital product which typically is information products that can delivered over the web. Napster differentiates itself from traditional music providers at the time when it offers customers convenience in finding and listening to music
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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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Introduction The Napster brand has had a varied history. Its initial incarnation was as the first widely used service for ‘free’ peer-to-peer (P2P) music sharing. The record companies mounted a legal challenge to Napster due to lost revenues on music sales which eventually forced it to close. But the Napster brand was purchased and its second incarnation offers a legal music download service in direct competition with Apple’s iTunes. Now‚ internet is very well developed all of the world. Following
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Napster Controversy Executive Summary This case takes a look at the Napster company which was launched in 1999 by freshman Shawn Fanning. Napster was later shut down in 2001 due to violations of copyright laws. The Napster;s offerings was later condemned By RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America)‚ a trade group representing the world’s biggest record labels‚ Universal music‚ Sony Music‚ Warner Music‚ EMI group and Bertelsmann AG.This case study gives a detailed analysis of the creation
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Sean Fanning had no idea of the amount of turmoil that the creation of Napster would cause. Full-length songs were being exchanged in a matter of minutes‚ and neither the artists nor the record companies were seeing a cent of it. With the widespread popularity of Internet file sharing the music population was divided. People either saw the program as a Godsend that would save them from wallet gouging CD prices or a new-aged form of robbery. From the money-hungry record company executive to the
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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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Napster is an online trading program that allows users to look into another persons hard-drive in order to trade music. "Napster and similar software provides users with a method of searching thousands of other users computers to share thousands of high quality music‚ music that is stored in the compressed .mp3 format."(Internet). Music of the popular artist is traded through the Internet at no cost. In other words instead of having to pay market price for music users of Napster receive the music
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copyright protection by laws for their intellectual material. Napster is a good example of how these intellectual property rights are being compromised on the Internet. Napster is a simple‚ yet sophisticated program created by a young college student named Shawn Fanning that enables users to anonymously swap and share audio files known as MP3s. During its infancy‚ Napster only had approximately 3‚000 users. At that time‚ Napster could probably have been protected by the Audio Home Recording Act
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Management03 Paper 1. 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
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Copyright Laws‚ Napster and Personal Ethics Abstract: The current lawsuits against Napster have brought out new ethical issues surrounding the exchange of MP3s and copyrighted material on the Internet. This paper discusses the ethical case against those who participate in MP3 trading services such as Napster and suggests ethical alternatives to these services. The free exchange of CD-quality music in the form of MP3s has created quite a stir in the media in the past few years and has forced
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