Napster: The affect on album sales Napster is a computer program written in 1998, by Shawn Fanning, while he was a student at Northeastern University. It allows us to download songs for free from other people that have the program. There has been a lot of debate on whether Napster helps or harms album sales. Several studies give us mixed signals on the impact of this music-sharing software. Music Executives, and artists like Dr. Dre and …showed first 75 words of 2048 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2048 total…be reluctant to subscribe to this service. I think that those people will eventually change their minds when they realize what they are missing. Ric Dube, an analyst with Webnoize, an entertainment industry research group, captures the idea best. He says, "If for fifteen dollars a month you could download all the music you wanted, chat with your favorite stars, and get first dibs on concert tickets, you'd pay for that, wouldn't you" (Vogelstein, par.12)?