Lawsuit Article Review - A&M Records v. Napster

One very well known copyright infringement case is A&M Records v. Napster and this case occurred in 2001. Napster started a peer-to-peer music file sharing website that allowed people to share music with others for free.

A&M Records filed a lawsuit against Napster saying that the website stole music and shared it worldwide. A&M Records won the lawsuit and in 2002 Napster closed the site, and then payed $26 million dollars to A&M and other record labels and songwriters. Napster ended up apologizing for what they had done.

The Napster lawsuit has set an example of what happened to those to commit copyright infringement in the music industry, but that still does not stop some websites today from giving away free downloads of music.

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