Individuals tend to be less concerned about copyright laws than businesses have to be, so individuals make all sorts of copyrighted songs available to the world from their personal machines. This means that anyone can download, for free, any song that someone has taken the time to encode in the MP3 format. Even though Napster has been banned from about 40 percent of U.S. colleges and universities, some of the biggest users of Napster are college students. Colleges and universities have spent lots of money making high-speed Internet access and computers available to students. College students tend to be comfortable with technologies like MP3.
College students tend to have little money.
These things make the idea of downloading music for free appealing and easy for students. This law provides the buyer of a CD or cassette with the right to not only make a copy for their own personal use, but also to make copies for friends as long as the original owner is not selling the copies or receiving any other type of compensation. Napster fans say that what they are doing is perfectly legal since the law does not specify who those friends must be or how many of them you can give a copy to. Inc. All rights reserved.