History+and+explaination

= = ==== Startpage - //next page - //back ==== =**History and explanation.** =

= = = =  File-sharing is downloading and distribution of copyrighted material, such as mp3 files, movies, programs and more. This illegal activity started already in 1978. People exchanged files with help of removable media (CD's and DVD's). Later on, this activity developed and it got improved.

Internet server were created so people could send files online to each other. A site called "MP3.com" shared mp3 files which was at that time a new file with better quality and less megabyte."MP3.com" grew and got over 4 million visitors daily.

In 1999 a program called "napster" was released, a program witch allowed you to share mp3 files with other users all over the world. It was a program who was faster and better than the internet sites and it had a new technology, "peer to peer" which allow you to connect to another user's files via the network all over the world. So the other user don't have to accept every time he wanna share a file.[1] In 2001 "Napster" got sued by several companies and lost the case. Today "Napster" is an online music store, where you can __buy__ music and not steal. [2][3]

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