ABSTRACT
Most people involved with digital music know that downloading music is controversial. Napster brought unrestricted song-sharing to the mainstream, and received enormous publicity for doing so. When the original version of Napster was shut down, it became clear even to casual enthusiasts that digital music was raising thorny legal issues. Incendiary conflicts involving copyright, copy-protected CDs, and copy-limiting song files were spawned of the free-music movement that Napster popularized-which was, at the core, a revolution of replication. Copying music lies at the heart of both the convenience and controversy of MP3.
