Napster: Unethical or Ethical

Napster: Unethical or Ethical


Napster: Unethical or Ethical? In the music industry various artists work hard in order to make music that many people enjoy listening to. They then sell their music to record companies such as Arista, RCA, Warner Brothers, and Jive, just to name a few. These record companies make multi million-dollar deals with these artists with the intentions that once they distribute the artists’ music to the record stores they will be selling a favorable amount of albums. In today’s ever advancing technology, music is basically being stolen off of the internet through mp3 databases such as Napster and Imesh. People are able to sign onto the internet, and are able to type in the name of the song, and then are able to download that particular song usually within five minutes. Now the problem becomes; how are the record companies, and most importantly the artists going to make money if their work is basically being given away on the internet? These people who d...