er are doing; there just sharing music files not committing crimes. Dave Matthews describes technologies and events that occur in the music industry that are like Napster saying, “There are a lot of bigger problems in the world than whether Napster succeeds or fails...I don’t think there is a malice coming out of Napster. We allow people to tape our concerts. But my thinking was that it only makes people want to buy more and increases the devotion of people who are going to listen to us” (Napster 1). Dave Matthews said Napster is exactly what Napster itself is trying to prove in court; that it is a legal free-trade community. Courtney Love supports Napster in the legality of trading music saying, “Stealing our copyright provisions in the dead of night when no-one is looking is piracy. It’s not piracy when kids swap music over the Internet using Napster. There were one billion downloads last year, but music sales are way up, so how is Napster hurting the music industry? It’s not. The only people who are scared of Napster are the people who have filler on their albums and are afraid that if people hear more than one single they’re not going to buy the album” (Napster 2). Courtney Love tells the truth about what Napster is and what it stands for, by backing it up with physical evidence. All four of these artist allow for the courts to have an insight into the artists point of view and how Napster as a technology is not hurting the music industry, but supporting not only struggling artists but well known artists as well.The other major point that defends Napster is the previous case about a new technology which the entertainment industry took to court. Napster’s users are not doing anything worse than if they recorded a video tape or a cassette tape for themselves. In 1984 the movie companies tried to stop Sony from selling VCRs because they feared widespread copying of movie...
