Online file-sharing took the world by storm with thelaunch of Napster® in 1999. Since then, the music and movie industries havebeen in an epic battle to stop people from sharing lawfully purchasedintellectual property while figuring out how to capitalize on Internetcapabilities. This is a complicated issue with advocates on both sides.

Topic: Online File-Sharing

Identify the various stakeholders in the onlinefile-sharing controversy created by file sharing websites. How ethical are theseservices from a free market perspective? A utilitarian or deontological one? Isthere a difference, ethically, between the copyright infringing activity of amusic file-sharing service and those who use it? What has the movie/musicindustry done to stop online file-sharing? What have they done to embrace it?

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