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File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audios, photos and/or videos), program files, documents or electronic books/magazines. It involves various legal aspects as it is often used to exchange data that is copyrighted or licensed.
They concluded: "If Plaintiffs want copyright law extended to allow the suppression of new technologies, they must make their case to Congress." [11] A number of file-sharing networks surfaced in Napster's wake, including Morpheus, Grokster, and KaZaA, many of which faced their own legal challenges over infringing behavior by their users. [10]
Upon the rise of music file sharing by consumers on the Internet, MP3.com conceived a new service in early 2000 called My.MP3.com that allowed users to rip songs from compact discs that they had already purchased legitimately, then upload the resulting MP3 files to an account managed by MP3.com.
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Windows Media DRM, reads instructions from media files in a rights management language that states what the user may do with the media. [36] Later versions of Windows Media DRM implemented music subscription services that make downloaded files unplayable after subscriptions are cancelled, along with the ability for a regional lockout. [37]
Metallica demanded that their songs be banned from file sharing, and that the users responsible for sharing their music be banned from the service. This led to over 300,000 users being banned from Napster, [ 9 ] although software was released that simply altered the Windows registry and allowed users to rejoin the service under a different name.
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]
In addition to file sharing for the purposes of entertainment, academic file sharing has become a topic of increasing concern, [18] [19] [20] as it is deemed to be a violation of academic integrity at many schools. [18] [19] [21] Academic file sharing by companies such as Chegg and Course Hero has become a point of particular controversy in ...