Napster

Napster

Overview of Napster in relation to cyber crime: [1]In 2000, A&MRecords and several other recording companies joined in launching a lawsuit against Napster for copyright infringement (see A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 239 F. 3d 1004, 9th Cir. [2001]). The following year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that Napster could be held liable for contributory infringement of the plaintiff 's copyrights. This was the first major case to address the application of the copyright laws to p2p file sharing and was the ruling that established that p2p sites could be held liable for pirated material distributed through their networks (A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 239 F. 3d 1004, 9th Cir. [2001]).

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Notes and References

1. By Neel Sampat

See Also

• Types of Cybercrime
• Cybercriminal

Further Reading

A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 239 F. 3d 1004 (9th Cir. 2001); Carlson, B., & Gustavsson, R. (2001). The rise and fall of Napster—An evolutionary approach. Proceedings of the 6th international computer science conference on active media technology (pp. 347–354). London: Springer-Verlag; Geisler, M., & Pohlmann, M. (2003). The social form of Napster: Cultivating the paradox of consumer emancipation. Advances in Consumer Research, 30. See (internet link) markus-giesler.com/; Geisler, M., & Pohlman, M. (2003). The anthropology of file sharing: Consuming Napster as a gift. Advances in Consumer Research, 30. See (internet link) markus -giesler.com/; Green, M. (2002). Napster opens Pandora's box: Examining how filesharing services threaten the enforcement of copyright on the Internet.Ohio State Law Journal, 63, 799; King, B. (2002, May 15). The day that Napster died. Wired.com. Retrieved from (internet link) wired.com/gadgets/portablemusic/news/2002/ 05/52540;McCourt, T., and Burkart, P. (2003). When creators, corporations and consumers collide: Napster and the development of on-line music distribution. Media, Culture, & Society, 25(3), 333–350.