Research on digital intellectual property rights and piracy problems of peer-to-peer network

摘要

Napster.com and its software provide free service of online MP3 files swapping. It has gained worldwide fame over the Internet rapidly. One one hand, the free service of MP3 exchanging and sharing which it offers has won wide acceptance, even becoming a trend of online service; On the other hand, it arises serious problem to protect intellectual property rights of digital files, for it allows unauthorized MP3 files to be shared. In fact, the Recording Industry Association of America filing suit against Napster, alleging its service infringed on intellectual property and copyright, has drawn great attention on the potential piracy over Peer-to-Peer Network.