He uses WinMX to listen to songs on the CD that are not being played on the radio first to make sure he likes them.īoth junior Jason Weber and sophomore Jay Reitman, when asked if they still buy CDs, respond “not anymore.” “I pretty much do buy everything on CD,” Shipman says. Has this unnecessarily hurt record company profits, as record companies claimed when they sued in 1999?Īlthough CD sales have dropped (no two sources can agree on exactly how much), many students are still buying CDs. “I’ve got friends that use it,” UNO student Amy McAlpine says. The most commonly used file exchange site was WinMX, which is free to users at UNO freshman Josh Shipman uses WinMX because “it uses a new platform … it’s just better software.” How has Internet file sharing fared after the May 2002 resignation of creator Shawn Fanning and the folding of the company that made Napster a household name?Ī survey of six UNO students shows that almost all use similar programs, mostly just to download music.
After the fall of Napster, an explosion of free Web-based music download programs popped up.Ī listing of potential sites can be found at the appropriately named Web site The listings on the site include some popular favorites, like WinMX and KaZaa, along with some creatively-named newbies, like Blubster and Mojo Nation.
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