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Napster's Impact On The Music Industry

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The internet has been a boon for some and a curse of others. This is especially true as it pertains to the music industry. Before the advent of online music streaming, CDs were the vessel through which consumers were able to purchase music from their favorite artists. The downside was, if a customer only liked one song by an artist they would have to purchase the whole CD and spend $15-20 to get the one song they liked. With the advent of Napster that all changed. Napster was among one of the first online music streaming companies that allowed consumers to download songs one at a time and for free. Thus allowing consumers to obtain the individual songs they liked, instead of paying for an entire CD of songs they did not.
Napster was shut down in early 2000 due to copyright infringement. According to an article published in the journal Media, Culture, and Society (2003), The Recording Industry Association of America, claimed that Napster provided, “Users with peer-to-peer software and provided a brokering service that managed a real-time index of available music files. This combination of marketed products and services, effectively turned Napster into a music piracy service” (pg. 7). This …show more content…

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