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19 Ent. & Sports Law. 1 (2001-2002)

handle is hein.journals/entspl19 and id is 1 raw text is: A PUBLICATION OF THE ABA FORUM ON THE ENTERTAINMENT AND SPORTS INDUSTRIES

VOLUME 19, NUMBER 1 - SPRING 2001

Napster Through the Scope of
Property and Personhood:
Leaving Artists Incomplete People
ZACHARY M. GARSEK

3ess than a year removed from his high
school graduation, eighteen-year-old Shawn
OFanning wrote the code that changed the
world,1 the source code for Napster. The concept
behind Napster struck Fanning while he was relaxing
in his Northeastern University dorm room in Boston,
hanging out with his bros, drinking a brew, and lis-

tening to his roommate whine about dead MP3
links.2 MP3s are digital quality sound files that are
compressed into a smaller format. As Fanning's room-
mate and other disgruntled users have discovered,
many of the pointers on websites offering current
[copyrighted] music seem to lead only to dead
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