it was only a year later that shawn fanning released the first version of napster on the web. it led millions to upload and download copy righted music. these were not hardened criminals. they would never think of stealing a cd or dvd from a store. this is not to justify their behavior only to attempt to explain economically what happened. some us understood the moral issues. there are many people, including members of my family who make their living by making music and i found myself signing up for columbia house and bmg while my classmates were down loading from napster. even the media was changing at that time. "cosmo girl" featured a section that advised readers how to swap cds, upload songs and share your movie with a friend. a magaziand of course, there's office ". >> have any of you ever faced any ethical dilemmas in the workplace? >> anybody? this is a chance for you to say something without any repercussions. stanley? oscar. anybody else? >> sometimes i download pirated music on to my work computer. >> who hasn't? >> good, good. what else? >> i'd like to hear more abo

. >> times of napster. >> like a time capsule. >> mcdonald's and cheese burgers -- >> oh!mcdonald's cheeseburg engineers. >> can you believe it? they should have put how much gas cost back then. >> limp biscuit, metallica, god smack. i guess i could mention britney spears, but she sucks. if you would like to contact me, tim curry via the author of this letter, reach me at 1034 pinehurts, you can probably look me up on the internet too, so call me future people if you still use phones. >> oh. >> i love how he gives a physical address not like an e-mail. >> cool. >> isn't that kind of neat? hopefully these guys write a new letter when they patch this hole up. >>> at number four on our countdown, it's time for a great close call. >> got a video of the ultimate close call. it's on 281 in san antonio, texas. a couple bikers out for a ride. keep an eye on this silver-looking car on the right of your screen. it somehow gets out of control. >> oh, my god. >> and just narrowly, narrowly misses that biker that is in the far left lane. you think, this is going to be bad. and the bike

are they going to go after people who are using file sharing protocols like the torrents of the old napster kind of programs or are they going to be monitoring download activity for people who are using it is sort of the web sites file sharing websites. we have this guy was busted you know just recently running a website or even usenet which is actually coming through what are they going to do it. i don't know what specifically they're going to be doing but i would imagine they're going to be monitoring all of them it's in their benefit to monitor all of them and again i don't really understand why the world is up in arms for protection of copyrighted material in the sense that we allow this information to be copyright and we as a society allow these laws to be in place we don't you know we don't challenge them in legislation at the end of the day and we're basically upset that we're trying to allow them to be enforced on the companies are losing money now i understand these are big corporate companies and all wants to cry of cry over spilt milk for a big corporate government couple of buck

so you were ahead of napster; that was-- [laughter] your files were being downloaded to young people. yeah, mm-hmm. there are a lot of heroes on this stage. and in your case, you fight for a teacher who taught your book. in your case, you decide to defend a book that had been banned from a local school. and it couldn't have been, necessarily, a safe position to take as a businesswoman in town. how does a bookseller get involved in defending a book? well, it was kind of an interesting way. i--what was happening was that a teacher in the seventh grade-- teaching seventh grade english and social studies-- was using the book shabanu by suzanne fisher staples, a newberry honor book, to teach to seventh graders who were doing a unit on the near east. and 90 children read the book, and it was a very successful book. she was a very imaginative, very strong teacher. and one parent objected to the book. page 223-- you know how that goes-- had a reference on it to something vaguely sexual that made her--she said made her daughter uncomfortable. she was making her daughter read the book aloud to

whereas those people in the industry who rely on gatekeepers are one thing they came out of the not napster case of course was that judge one of the judge determined that the c. sellers were in collusion and price fixing so that kind of behavior was was against the the industry's all so let me ask you about the sopa stop an online piracy act and other laws that could be they would see illegal downloading things decades in prison they are i and argues that these laws are needed to protect young artists like yourself so once again the question is these ugly laws that are written by guys who don't know the arctic monkeys from baboons you know they're arguing that they need to protect you are do you feel protective absolutely not i think it's kind of hilarious you know you've got all these these guys in the background with their suits and whatnot and they're all you know you've got to save the kids got to save the musicians you know what you're doing is screwing over the musicians and the truth is it's just screwing them over so they're they're making a big deal out of it and they're throwing u

napster. one jonty life on the go. video on demand oxys live broadcasts and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. questions on the dot com. welcome back to crossfire i'm carol to remind you we're talking about the march fourth presidential election in russia. take a. listen. ok gentlemen one of the things i kind of like i mean i don't like to mimic our richard nixon because that's not my political flavoring but i mean he did talk about the the silent majority and they can the rise of conservatism in the united states and it seems to me that when we when we look at these protests that are televised on russian television and you can get to watch plenty of it on you tube if you want is actually energized the silent majority because you know if you live outside of moscow and st petersburg the amenities are not as great or you're right you can be on the internet that's fine ok you can be anywhere to be on the internet but the same time the amenities and i think a lot of people say look these people in moscow they're the ones that have benefited from twelve years of this

a year later that northeastern university sophomore release the first version of next year -- of napster on the internet. it led millions to illegally download at up load illegally copyrighted music. this is certainly not deducted by their behavior led to a tentative plan economically what happened. some of us understood the moral issues. there were many people, including members of my family, who make their living by making usinmusic. during discussions, i found myself siding of four musical up while my friends were ster.oading from nap a magazine published by the hearst corporation, one of the biggest creators of intellectual property in the world, was teaching teenagers how to pirate. >> at any of you ever faced ethical problems in the workplace? >> anybody? this is a chance for you to say something without any repercussions. stanley? oscar, c'mon. anybody else. >> sometimes, i download pirated music to my work computer. >> who hasn't? >> around the same time, congress passed the millennium copyright act. they created and in administrative method to take down notices to in its service

it was only a year later that northeastern university sophomore release the first version of napster. all of a sudden the pent-up frustration of not being able to access music at economically appropriate price along with a feeling that if it is on the internet it is accessible, it must be okay, led millions to illegally upload and download copyrighted music. these were not hardened criminals. they would never think of stealing a cd or dvd from a store. this is not to justify their behavior, only to attempt explained economically what had happened to some of us understood the moral issues. there are many people including members of my family to make their living by making music, and discuss with is the impact of filesharing. through those discussions i found myself signing up while my classmates were downloading from napster. what interested me most was even the media was changing at the time to the magazine cosmo girl featured an article in this section your fabulous life, that advised teenagers how to swap cds, show your great music with a friend and vice versa. that's right, a magaz