Napster

Napster was the first sharing thing in the Web2.0. It was created by Shawn Fanning
when he was in Northeastern University in Boston, He created the Software for Audio/Mp3 sharing and circulated to some of his friends. Those friends again circulated to their friends and it went on and on and soon within 1-2 week it was found more than million people were using Napster.

It grew popular and popular but the major drawback was that it was violating ' Copyright Violations ' it was said that during napster time the Music stores were vacant and everyone prefered to get Music through napster, It was easy and also saved huge bucks. All the music companies were annoyed by napster there sales went down due to napster its aim was ' You give me a song and I will also give a song '

But Napster time was ended in July 2001 when Metallica (A famous heavy metal band) cased because its song I disappear was leaked before it was released, also Madonna's singles were leaked which annoyed her.

In 2000, A&M records with several other recording companies sued Napster for contributing to copyright violations of US Digital Millennium Act (DMC Act) The music companies made the following claims against Napster:

(1) That its users were directly infringing the plaintiff's copyright;

(2) That Napster was liable for contributory infringement of the plaintiff's copyright;

(3) That Napster was liable for vicarious infringement of the plaintiff's copyright.

The court found it guilt for all of the above and it had to be shut downed in July 2001 and was declared bankrupt in 2002 .

The company still has website http://free.napster.com/
Soon after Napster a video exchange site was launched which was Youtube.com