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Student Essay on Illegal P2P File Sharing

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Illegal P2P File Sharing

Summary:   Essay provides an explanation of why P2P file sharing is illegal.


About 5 years ago Napster, a network software application, was being used to download music files. The network was growing faster than anybody who ever started it would have imagined. When artists, songwriters, and all of the other people involved in making CD's realized that this wasn't going to slow down any time soon, they decided that they needed to stop Napster. Little by little, Napster was being less used and it became harder to find the songs wanted until nobody used it anymore. When all of this was happening, other applications were made available. Kazaa and Grokster are probably the two most used Peer to Peer, or P2P file sharing networks you can find, although there are many others.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) wants to let the public know that this file sharing.....

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