> > You seem to be under the impression that Napster publishes free music. What Napster does is allow for people to trade music files without paying a royalty to the copyright holder.
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> Oh wow, so then I guess AOL should be sued because I can trade music files without paying a royalty over AIM! Hell, my ISP should be sued as well; I'm using their service.

No. The logical fallacy you are using here is called "Sweeping Generalization".

Napster is a service that was created specifically to facitiate the dissemination of copyrighted materials illegally.

AOL's Instant Messaging service was not created for that purpose.

Your ISP was not created for that purpose.

> Napster simply allows people to share MP3s. They can't really be held responsible if their users decide to do illegal things with their service. If I were to send pirated CDs to friends via the postal service, nobody would sue the USPS for facilitating that piracy...

> Stephen

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