napster

Napster and many other music downloading companies have been the thorn in many musicians’ sides for sometime now. Everywhere you look here lately there is some controversy over whether or not it is a crime to download music for free. One of the articles that caught my eye is an article by Leonard Pitts.
The article is mainly about how it was only common sense that sooner or later this would become illegal. He makes his point clear throughout the article, but while doing this he has the talent to look at both sides of things, through the downloader’s point of view and the musicians. The downloaders should have known that sooner or later this would be happening. So far a suit is being filed against 261 people and the fine is $150,000 per stolen song. The musicians, of course, have...