Beyond Napster.

• Author: Harmon, Amy
• Position: Illegal downloading - Brief Article

The music industry spent tons of money this summer trying to shut down Napster, the main service people use to copy tunes from the Web without paying. But even if record companies win this battle, they may lose the war. Other types of software have already made the copying of entertainment much easier and the tracing of copiers far harder. Thanks to relatively new computer networks like Freenet and Gnutella, everything from video games to Scientology texts is being traded...