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Napster Debate For a project in college eighteen-year old Shawn Fanning wrote a program for a way to download music off the internet. He later put the program on the internet and Napster was born. Napster is a program that allows you to download music on the internet. Since this program is free, many people have downloaded Napster. Since Napster got so many users in so short of a time, a lot of artist and …

…future, but it has still brought up the question about how music on the internet is going to be controlled. The fifteen-dollar charge per month if a good idea, but trying to stop music from being downloaded is a losing battle. There have already been three or four more free software offers created on the internet that let you download music. The record companies just need to meet with Napster and figure out a median.