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2. Music piracy - Wikipedia

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   Napster was a free file sharing software created by college student Shawn Fanning to enable people to share and trade music files in mp3 format. Napster became hugely popular because it made it so easy to share and download music files. However, the heavy metal band Metallica sued the company for copyright infringement. [11]

3. The High Price of Free Music: How Illegal Downloads Are ... - AOL

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   When we want new music, there's a strong temptation to get it for free through file sharing, ripping it from our friends, or downloading it illegally. So perhaps it shouldn't surprise us that four ...

4. Metallica v. Napster, Inc. - Wikipedia

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   Metallica traced the leak to a file on Napster's peer-to-peer file-sharing network, where the band's entire catalogue was available for free download. [5] Metallica argued that Napster was enabling users to exchange copyrighted MP3 files. [6] Metallica sought a minimum of $10 million in damages, at a rate of $100,000 per illegally downloaded ...

5. Copyright infringement - Wikipedia

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   A 2007 study in the Journal of Political Economy found that the effect of music downloads on legal music sales was "statistically indistinguishable from zero". [93] A report from 2013, released by the European Commission Joint Research Centre suggests that illegal music downloads have almost no effect on the number of legal music downloads. The ...

6. Napster - Wikipedia

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   Napster agreed to pay music creators and copyright owners a $26 million settlement for past, unauthorized uses of music, and as an advance against future licensing royalties of $10 million. To pay those fees, Napster attempted to convert its free service into a subscription system, and thus traffic to Napster was reduced.

7. Online piracy - Wikipedia

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   qBittorrent is one of the most widely used torrenting programs due to its free and open-source nature. Online piracy or software piracy is the practice of downloading and distributing copyrighted works digitally without permission, such as music, movies or software. [1] [2]