Napster

Napster is a device that focused on two music online services to download music. Its idea was developed by Shawn Fanning.  It is a pioneer in facilitating the peer-to-peer sharing of MP3 media files over the internet. Although there were a lot of devices that had the same purpose of Napster to ease the sharing of media (audio and video) files, individuals found Napster as a special device which dealt exclusively with files that are in the form of MP3. Additionally, it provides a user friendly interface and several other features such as the ability of adding the latest music automatically, the criteria of selecting the songs that suit the user’s mood and the option of creating a custom playlist. All of these previous features distinguished Napster from the other competitors in the Market and contributed to have a high demand from the individuals before the shutting down. However, Napster had shut down after Recoding Industry Association of America (RIAA) and other recording companies sued it for vicarious copyright infringement.