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“But something touched me deep inside. The day the music died… And singin’, this’ll be the day that I die...” When Don McClean wrote this number, possibly he wrote of the demise of Napster in 2001. Napster was considered the biggest killer application after email thatignited frenzy among the users worldwide. It was the most innovative hobbyhorse that was created by a teenage programmer Shawn Fanning.
It revolutionized the concept of file swapping and gave birth to a new technology known as peer to peer (P2P), which helped users switch mp3 files freely over the Internet.
Napster became so popular that it put the mightiest forces of the entertainment industry in jeopardy. A mammoth copyright infringement lawsuit was slapped on it by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Meanwhile, the open-source community got into action by launching sophisticated file-swapping application alternatives like Gnutella, Kazza, BearShare and Morpheus. What actually
landed Napster in deep waters was creating a file-trading network without gaining prior permission from record companies for the sharing of copyright music. But with the new decentralized cryptographically strong P2P protocols – it will nearly be impossible for companies to interdict.
After the two year long legal battle, Napster quietly faded into oblivion to emerge again in 2006 without the file sharing feature. Even though the business strategy of Napster failed; it managed to open the Pandora’s Box and paved the way for digital music to leap into the mainstream entertainment industry.
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Source :- IIPM Editorial, 2006
“But something touched me deep inside. The day the music died… And singin’, this’ll be the day that I die...” When Don McClean wrote this number, possibly he wrote of the demise of Napster in 2001. Napster was considered the biggest killer application after email thatignited frenzy among the users worldwide. It was the most innovative hobbyhorse that was created by a teenage programmer Shawn Fanning.
It revolutionized the concept of file swapping and gave birth to a new technology known as peer to peer (P2P), which helped users switch mp3 files freely over the Internet.Napster became so popular that it put the mightiest forces of the entertainment industry in jeopardy. A mammoth copyright infringement lawsuit was slapped on it by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Meanwhile, the open-source community got into action by launching sophisticated file-swapping application alternatives like Gnutella, Kazza, BearShare and Morpheus. What actually
landed Napster in deep waters was creating a file-trading network without gaining prior permission from record companies for the sharing of copyright music. But with the new decentralized cryptographically strong P2P protocols – it will nearly be impossible for companies to interdict.
After the two year long legal battle, Napster quietly faded into oblivion to emerge again in 2006 without the file sharing feature. Even though the business strategy of Napster failed; it managed to open the Pandora’s Box and paved the way for digital music to leap into the mainstream entertainment industry.
For Complete Article, Click on IIPM Article
Source :- IIPM Editorial, 2006
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