Napster does not store files on its server, therefore they said they would install filters on the files of the songs they receive from the music companies' lists. Filters would mean the user could find the file on someone's hard drive, but would not be able to download it. Let's start with the basics. Napster is a file-sharing program one can download directly from its website.
Users share audio files between each other.
It was alright then for some reason, but now the record companies are saying they're losing a lot of money. I'm pretty much computer illiterate, but Napster is easy because all you do is download it, open the program, search, double-click and voila, you have a new song downloading. When certain colleges and universities banned Napster from their server, Napigator offered different servers, called 'nap servers' so users could continue to download from Napster, but on a different server. It seemed that just as Napster was beginning to filter files, other websites and companies were introducing programs to get around the filtering, allowing users to download all media files, whether they are copyright-protected or not by renaming files in pig latin, or renaming files in completely random ways. This Troy, NY based company recently put up a downloadable program as part of their site, which would convert any of the user's media files into pig latin.