Peer-to-peer sharing of protected files is a violation of copyright.
Metallica
They sued napster for copyright infringment. And I think they won that law suit too. Napster is a online free music download site.
The 1997 Copyright Act of Canada.
Copyright law gives the creator of a work the exclusive right to copy, alter, distribute, or perform/display the work, or authorize others to do so. Users of Napster and other peer-to-peer filesharing services routinely violate these rights by copying and distributing works without permission.
Napster In late 1999, the Recording Industry Association of America filed suit against Napster, citing copyright infringement.
In June of 1999, Shawn Fanning created Napster, which was the first "internet service" that allowed people to share music and avoid paying the copyright holders. Controversy flared over this and by July of 2001, Napster was shut down in order to comply with a court injunction.
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alice in wonder land?
Napster ended in 2001.
Napster :)
Napster is a company where you can stream music to a device.