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Since the creation of the Internet people have found different ways to use it at their advantage. More recently people have used it to download music from any artist off huge servers, the most popular of which was Napster. This program was originally created by Shawn Fanning as a way for him and his friends to share MP3 files. Now it has grown to the most popular place to share pirated music over the Internet. So how has this program affected the music industry? An article arranged by David Gray entitled, “Sound off Napster” is a roundtable discussion on the pros and cons of Napster. Some ideas discussed here are the affects on the consumer, the artists, and what are some possible solutions to the problem. The big question here is how does Napster affect the artists themselves. CEO Marc Geiger explains success as an artist is, “ really having your music owned by as many people as possible. If someone said their music was illegally downloaded a gazillion times, that’s a measure of success, not failure.” Geiger expresses a valid point here. In order for an artist to make money off their music and for it to become popular is to have more and more people listening to it. Recording artist Chuck D. labels file sharing as, “the new radio.
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