File Sharing in the United States <Tab/>Let's take a trip to cyber space and learn the basics of downloading music files or as everybody else calls it, "file swapping". Today's big supplier of peer to peer music files is KaZaA. KaZaA is a peer to peer based to site, meaning that people have bought CD's and uploaded them to their PC; they copied the songs they paid for onto their …showed first 75 words of 834 total…

…showed last 75 words of 834 total…to punish excessive offenders that alter or forge digital watermarks, the electronic ID tags embedded in CD's and electronic software for up to five years in prison, and a $25,000 fine. Work Cited Hamilton, Marci, "Why suing college students for illegal music downloading is a right." <Tab/>Find Law. 7 August 2003. Internet. Accessed 20 April 2005 <Tab/>Http://www.cnn.com <Tab/> <Tab/>