The word "Napster" originated as creator Sean Fanning's grade school nickname. It was …show more content…
Napster could be driven to bankruptcy and Audiogalaxy, Scour, Bearshare, Aimster, Kava, iMesh, Limewire, Abe's MP3 finder, Gnotella, WinMX, Tripnosis, Swaptor, Freenet, Mediashare, Yoink, Ohaha, Smirck, and several other file sharing programs would keep the pulse of sharing community beating. Napster is trying to work out a solution with the record companies. They have signed a deal with the German company "Bertslman Inc." who owns the BMG music company. Already a link off of the Napster program has been added which brings the user directly to the Bertlsman owned "CD Now" website. A potential Napster version where the user pays a monthly rate is in the works, but the outlook for this is not very good. Why pay a monthly rate for music that is free at one of the many other sites? Also, certain companies or artist still may not comply, and those songs would still have to be blocked. This would limit the amount of music available making the service inferior to