“A sort of ‘free Napster’ movement is surfacing to counter
efforts by record companies and universities to quash access to the
software, which lets online users swap digital music
tracks.
The Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) beef with
Napster is that it could create a black market for illegal copies
of digital music; the organization is suing to shut Napster
down.
Universities, on the other hand, started barring
students–arguably the most active digital music collectors–from
using college networks to tap Napster on the grounds that the
program was a bandwidth hog.”
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