An Opinion Piece
By Charles Anthony
The battle between the record industry, represented by lawyers for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Napster, the file transfer software providing website that is the plaintiff in the RIAA's lawsuit, brings to a sharp focus, the dramatic paradigm shift the Internet demands of those who wish to thrive in the digital marketplace.
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The recording industry won't face up to the fact that the sort of file sharing system, the model that Napster is using, is just second nature to the distributed system that is the Internet.
Failing to perceive the benefit, the industry has gone and shot themselves in the foot, litigating against a company that is developing the model for business they will need themselves in order to realize the potential of the Network;
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