NAPSTER/GNUTELLA

software for sharing files over the Internet. The cover story entitled “The War Over Napster” by Steven Levy appeared in the June 5, 2000 issue of Newsweek Magazine, pp. 46-53 . Although most of the controversy over Napster concerns copyright and royalties, the way in which Napster broadcasts online directly from multiple servers to a single user is revolutionary and should be of great interest to accountants and financial analysts. In essence, every browser becomes a server for whatever files a person wants to share with the world. This is a very complicated issue that in tantamount to a paradigm shift in web serving, searching, and file sharing. See http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/napster.htm