My Mother Always told Me to Share

I share everything with friends and family. I share clothes, DVDs, Cd's, and anything worth sharing. But one thing I can't share is my music files and the music industry tends to keep it that way. It all started with Napster. Napster was created by Shawn Fanning when he was looking for an easier way to find music. He made it so peers can upload music and share it with other peers (P2P) by converting it into MP3 forms for free. It soon caught on like wild fire and spread mainly among college students. The music industry was alerted and threw in the big guns by taking legal actions against Napster. The music industry said that Napster was guilty of copyright violations. Artists threw in lawsuits after lawsuits and there were big name artists like Metallica involved in cases against Napster. Eventually the courts shut Napster down. Later Napster was bought out. I believe that the music industry cannot stop file sharing because after the shut down Napster there will be and there are other P2P programs such as Kazaa, and Limewire. I think that it is wrong that we can't share our music.
I think P2P file sharing benefits people who uses it, musicians, and the music industry. It benefits the people who uses it because they can get a song and not have to buy the whole CD. They can find songs that they couldn't find at any record store. They can listen to any kind of music in any language.Because the people can get a hold of any kind of music it helps the music industries. If people like the new music they listen to then fan base grows for all kinds of genres, and language and the music industry can expand and open a whole new gate of music. I think this is how alternative music became so popular. People couldn't get a hold of it before but with programs like Napster they can download it. After people listened to it they may like it; generating a fan base and craving a niche for alternative music in the music world. I think it helps musicians in the same way too. When people hear a local band and likes it and they go home and uploads the band's songs to programs like Napster. It then spreads throughout the music community making it possible for local bands to get heard and known. It lets the local bands have a door into success. File sharing music may be a god send to the music industry but only if they let it run its course.