Reading Response Lessig 53-79

Lessig talks continues the topic of piracy and the internet on page 66, highlighting a certain technology called Napster.  Napster made peer-to-peer internet sharing famous by amassing over 10 million users within nine months. After eighteen months, there were close to 80 million registered users of the system.".  The reason it became so popular was because of the limitless possibilities involved with peer to peer sharing.  This sharing is described as a function which "enables users to make content available to any number of other users. With a p2p system, you can share your favorite songs with your best friend— or your 20,000 best friends"(pg 67).