Napster was originally founder in 1999 as a peer to pee service where the share audio files. This is unique because it revolutionized the idea of sharing files over the internet for free. The response from the consumers would be that the could now get their music for free so it would have been popular and appealing due to the fact that it man all be done from your home. At the time that this website was created the laws on copyright would not have been as strict so therefore people would not have known many of the consequences of thia illegal act. Nowadays the law has been enforced enough for people to know what can happen. An example if this would be when Metallica sued Napster for $10 million($100,000 for each song) which was more than likely what made Napster eradicate illegal downloads. The ways that piracy affected the artists would be the massive loss of profits for them through CD sales. Saying this in 2012 sales in music had risen by 0.3%. This would be by having new ways of distributing music legally such as streaming through services such as Spotify.
iTunes was introduced on January 9th 2001. The services that iTunes offered was that you could download either full albums or individual songs completely legally. In later years the ability to download and own books, films and podcasts. A new feature that iTunes has incorporated would be the musical social networking 'Ping'. This allows for a more social interactive aspect so a piece of software thay was originally a media player. The way that iTunes has changed music would be by being able to distribute music in a more convenient manner from the comfort of their home. This had lead to the death of highstreet music stores such as HMV.
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