The Napster Dilemma

Introduction to Napster's dilemma: What I call "Napster's dilemma" is a question that includes a new technical concept and a redefinition of the old idea. This is the case of many legal and ethical conflicts arising from the new possibilities and choices available for informatics and telecommunications. In 1998, President Clinton signed the new Digital Millennium Copyright Act, where excellent attempts to solve these problems were completed.

Napster's Ethical Dilemma The ethical dilemma of computer downloads, or music downloads, has been subject to rigorous scrutiny over the past few years. Napster is a leader in the development of new digital transactions if it symbolizes new technology. Moral problems seem to be spreading around all powerful dollars. Several special musicians, Lars Ulrich and Dr. Metreica (Lapster) have some serious problems with Napster. Although their argument is worth it, the same is true for Napster creators and users.

For those younger to remember, Napster is the first application to enable digital media sharing. In other words, sharing media is possible before Napster, but that is what computer enthusiasts can do, and that requires a lot of effort. Napster actually provides a way for the neighbor to share digital media with the community, ie the first P2P file sharing tool. Due to copyright infringement, Napster eventually lost its legal controversy and was closed in the summer of 2001. Before the disappearance, Napster reached 20 million users. - Napster is a social network species of Agostina Di Domenico.

Napster was released in 1999. In the heyday there were 80 million active users, most digital music (mp3 files) were exchanged via a computer. Napster is known as a "peer-to-peer" file sharing service. However, in the network sense, it is not actually P2P. When someone wants to download or transfer music, they need to know which computer has which file. And this information is stored only on the Napster server. Like electronic gold, legal reality makes Napster (broker) bankrupt. At that time, American computer programmer Bram Cohen released "BitTorrent" software for sharing files. His approach is very clever. Instead of concentrating information and sharing files, he developed a way to distribute data to everyone who downloaded or downloaded the file. This has two advantages. 1) It is not even necessary to download the entire file before sharing.