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                                                       (1)English 11Words 1302 12/ 20/ 00      Napster Right or Wrong ?               "As an artist, there are so many slipway that we smoke be taken advantage of. To have yet one more way to stip an artist of making an innocent living is just to much. Thats why I sued." ( Levy, 51 )- Andre Young ( Dr. Dre)Rapper/Producer          There are many ways that an artist can be stripped of making an honest living, Napster, one of the many Mp3 services online, is the latest. An Mp3 ( short for ISO-MPEG Audio Layer 3 ) is a digital compression of a music or video institutionalise so its easier to send to one another over the internet ( Levy, 51 ). Napster is an online music source where you can search for a song and download it suddenly free, with just one click from your fingertips.           The Napster program, created by 19 year-old college drop out Shawn Fanning, is the fastest growing site in history. It recently passed the 25 million train in less than a year since it was released (Greenfeld, 62 ). His program allows you to download copyright music, and thats why he is existence sued by a number of corporations. Napster is being sued by RIAA ( the Recording Industry Association of America ), record companies ( BMG, the holder of lables like Arista, Bad Boy, RCA, LaFace ), and artists ( Rock band Metallica and Rapper/Producer Dr.Dre).           "Im down for a parallel business even if its parasitic. Napster is the new radio. Its the most exciting thing since rap, disco and the Beatle s." said rapper Chuck D, and it did it is ( Levy, 51 ). Napster is like a radio. You can listen to music and preview it for free. Some artists are actually for Napster like Chuck D. , Neil Young, and rock group Limp Bizkit, who headlined a free tour sponsored by Napster along with Cypress Hill. Napster is like a new radio. Its been said that people use Napster because they feel so                                                              (2)ripped off that compact disc prices are so high. They would rather just download the whole album online, then burn it on to a cd spending only three dollars for a ruin cd instead of the seventeen dollars spent for buying the actual album. The generalized public that use Napster are young ( teenagers and college