Johnny Yassa

English Paper

9/ 23/ 03

            File sharing over the Internet should be banned and I think people who do participate in this act should be fined.

            I think by millions of consumers downloading copyright music through the Internet for free greatly hurts the artists and music industry. This creates problems between everyone in the industry, artists and fans and also artists and media. I believe that don’t matter how much u love music or how long u loved it I don’t think you should have the right to free music. There are various cases pending on this same issue one; the one that’s most talked about case is Shawn Fanning’s. He’s the creator or the File sharing Program Napster.

            Napster is a music file-sharing program where users can just download this program and swap any kind of music file with people all over the world. With Napster you can find almost any song u want and u can just download it to your computer for free. The argument between Napster and