Technology: File Sharing 技术:文件分享
[audio]http://file.24en.com/bbc/tae/furniture_831585/bbc_tae_216_file_sharing.mp3[/audio][color=#3f3f3f][font=Verdana, 宋体, helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=12px]It has been 10 years since the birth of Napster and the global spread of [b]file-sharing[/b] sites.
[p=21, 2, left]Back in 1999, Shawn Fanning, then a 19-year-old student, could never have[b]predicted the extent to which[/b] his simple computer program would change the music industry forever.[/p][p=21, 2, left]Napster’s [b]peer-to-peer[/b] file sharing system was perhaps the most highly [b]publicised[/b] of its time and it was not always good publicity.[/p][p=21, 2, left]The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was [b]less than impressed[/b] at how easy Napster made it for people to download music free of charge. They were quoted in the media at the time calling Napster "an [b]instrument of shoplifting[/b]".[/p][p=21, 2, left]The RIAA proceeded to sue Napster saying "Napster knowingly and[b]wilfully set out[/b] to build a business based on [b]copyright infringement[/b] on an [b]unprecedented[/b] scale."[/p][p=21, 2, left]Shawn Fanning says his original [b]intention[/b] was never to make money from the site. He claims he had only been trying to make it easier for his friends to share digital music files.[/p][p=21, 2, left]A few years later, the lawsuit was dropped but a new ruling meant Napster was effectively unable to continue [b]legally[/b] operating under their existing [b]business model[/b].[/p][p=21, 2, left]One thing Napster had proved was the enormous global appetite for sharing and downloading music. And where there is a [b]healthy demand[/b], there is usually a [b]healthy profit[/b] to be made too.[/p][p=21, 2, left]So, unsurprisingly, the music industry [b]followed suit[/b] and the big [b]record labels[/b] now play a key role in hugely successful ventures such as Apple iTunes, Yahoo Music and Spotify. Napster has also relaunched itself with a more [b]viable[/b] and legal business model in which people pay a small fee for downloading songs.[/p][p=21, 2, left]Turning your home PC into a [b]modern-day jukebox[/b] has never been so easy. But with illegal file sharing still easily accessible, it is yet to be seen how viable in the long term these new legal music sharing sites are.[/p][/size][/font][/color]
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