Napster

Dustin Orner
March 14, 2003
Working Musician
Digital Downloading
I’m going to look at the Record labels side of the issue first. I can understand why the Record Labels would be very upset about Napster and files sharing. Obviously, they are stealing music and taking money right out of the pockets of them and their artists. The main contributors to this infringement case are EMI, Sony, Universal, A&M Music and Warner music. They, with the help of RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), brought up a copyright infringement case against the infamous Napster Company (www.RIAA.com). They claim that Napster is ‘secondarily’ responsible for over 60 million users worldwide who share roughly over 30 billion files over the past 4 years since its inception in 1998. Each single infraction of copyright infringement is worth about $25,000. This means that Napster might ...