We all know the incidence of Napster being shut down in 2002. Was it doing an unethical thing by providing people a platform for sharing files? Or was it unethical that the files were music files to be more specific?
I believe that all of this depends upon who has the power and who hasn't. In my opinion napster provided a platform, or may be a community where people were able to share their "stuff". Now if we go to facebook or youtube, thats happening opening, even copyrighted material has been published without and hesitation and no one has any problem about that. But as it just impacted the business of some major companies they made it unethical and filed a law suite against them.
At the end it all boils down to who has power and resources to rule over other. If napster was big enough to fight for its service, it wouldn't have been out of business now.
Virtual Teamwork
15 years ago
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