What Are Copyrights And Patents?
Napster pioneered the idea of peer-to-peer file sharing. With the old model of Napster (Napster relaunched itself in 2003 as a legal, pay-for-music site), individual individuals stored files that they wished to share (typically MP3 music files) on their onerous disks and shared them directly with other individuals. Users ran a bit of Napster software …