Judson Smith Myers English 1101 Paper 1 9/13/2000 Could Napster Be Nicked? Recently, Napster, Inc., the online song sharing company came very close to being shut down for copyright infringement. I believe that it would be a mistake to shut down these online, song-sharing, companies as they provide a number of benefits to society. Some examples of these benefits include exposing listeners to a wider variety of music and not limiting their listening to one or two particular …showed first 75 words of 849 total…

…showed last 75 words of 849 total…again and they are getting turned on to new music also. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Works Cited Reuters. “Napster isn’t affecting CD sales.” ZDNet News. 28 August 2000 <http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2620842,00.html> Hiatt, Brian. “RIAA Sues Napster, Claiming ‘Music Piracy.” Sonic.Net All News. 8 December 1999. http://www.sonic.net/news/archive/story.jhtml?id=569952 Cohen, Jonathan. “Napster To Block Metallica Infringers From Service.” Billboard.com: Music News. 4 May 2000. <http://www.billboard.com/daily/2000/0504_03.asp>