Closed Down Websites

In the past, there was a file sharing network/website which was named Napster. Through this website people were able to easily share compressed files of music, videos and movies between computers without permission from copyright owners. 

The copyright owners quickly realized how this service could impact the media industry and sued them under copyright infringement grounds. However, many different ways were being produced a number of years later. These services took on a distributed model in the hope that they would not suffer the same fate as Napster. 

The media industry again swiftly reacted and tried to sue the two most recognized services but failed to prove to the federal appellate court in California that these service should be held accountable for the people would use the service for. 

Websites like wikipedia, facebook and youtube would not exist today if laws such as SOPA and PIPA had been set up in the past because these websites share information and files that are and could be possible copyrighted.



This shows that some extreme action can be taken in regards to peer to peer file sharing laws being introduced and can affect the whole community.