Now, earth, hold what earls once held and heroes can no more; it was mined from you first by honorable men. My own people have been ruined in war; one by one they went down to death, looked their last on sweet life in the hall. I am left with nobody to bear a sword or to burnish plated goblets, put a sheen on the cup. The companies have departed .

1. what was the premise behind the recording industry association of america’s lawsuit against napster? 2. based on your knowledge of how napster worked, if you downloaded a copy of a song from a friend’s hard drive using napster, would you be infringing on the musician’s or record company’s copyright? 3. describe the scope of the digital millennium copyright act and what or whom it protects. 4. what was the link between the digital millennium copyright act and the napster legal proceedings? 5. what are the legal implications of napster’s online music-sharing service?