Thursday, 02 May 2019
How does Napster link to MP3 files?
Well Napster doesn’t really deal in ‘links’ at all in the conventional sense. It basically allows the people using it to access files on each other’s hard drives. So you can get files which are on other Napster users’ drives, and meanwhile other people can be getting files from your hard drive. You tell Napster which directories it is allowed to use. In some ways it’s a good idea, but I worry a bit about the security implications of encouraging unknown third parties on the net to come in and access my hard drive without my having any detailed knowledge of or control over what they are doing (so I haven’t personally used Napster – I’m just going by what I’ve been told about it, essentially, and what their own website says).
