Techweek 2013 Chicago

It's been 15 years since Napster launched, yet the Internet is still a highly regulated, strictly governed entity. Napster was revolutionary on all fronts: not only did it forever change the course of the music industry, it made ownership of digital content instant through downloading. The debate around how we should view the concept of intellectual property and copyright in the digital age has continued since the launch of Napster in the '90's until today. Why is file-sharing still so limited and how has it affected the world at large? This talk examines the progress in the effort for open sharing since Napster.