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2. Music piracy - Wikipedia

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   Napster was a free file sharing software created by college student Shawn Fanning to enable people to share and trade music files in mp3 format. Napster became hugely popular because it made it so easy to share and download music files. However, the heavy metal band Metallica sued the company for copyright infringement. [11]

3. The High Price of Free Music: How Illegal Downloads Are ... - AOL

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   When we want new music, there's a strong temptation to get it for free through file sharing, ripping it from our friends, or downloading it illegally. So perhaps it shouldn't surprise us that four ...

4. Metallica v. Napster, Inc. - Wikipedia

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   Metallica traced the leak to a file on Napster's peer-to-peer file-sharing network, where the band's entire catalogue was available for free download. [5] Metallica argued that Napster was enabling users to exchange copyrighted MP3 files. [6] Metallica sought a minimum of $10 million in damages, at a rate of $100,000 per illegally downloaded ...

5. Music download - Wikipedia

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   A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment.

6. Online piracy - Wikipedia

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   The release of Napster in 1999 caused a rapid upsurge in online piracy of music, films and television, though it always maintained a focus on music in the MP3 format. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It allowed users to share content via peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing and was one of the first mainstream uses of this distribution methods as it made it easy for ...

7. Legal aspects of file sharing - Wikipedia

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   It is illegal, due to regime attempts to control culture. [29] Despite government repression, file sharing is common, as it is in most other countries. [30] Because official channels are heavily dominated by government propaganda and outside media is banned, illegally traded files are a unique view into the outside world for North Koreans. [30]

8. Trade group efforts against file sharing - Wikipedia

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   In late 1999, RIAA labels sued Napster for providing a peer-to-peer file sharing network for MP3 files. The plaintiffs claimed that Napster "facilitate[d] piracy of music on an unprecedented scale." [15] Napster became bankrupt during the case; and has since been taken over by Roxio and provides a download service which is sanctioned by the RIAA.

9. Copyright infringement - Wikipedia

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   A 2007 study in the Journal of Political Economy found that the effect of music downloads on legal music sales was "statistically indistinguishable from zero". [93] A report from 2013, released by the European Commission Joint Research Centre suggests that illegal music downloads have almost no effect on the number of legal music downloads. The ...