Joel Tenenbaum is a 25 year old, Boston University graduate student who is being sued in federal court in Boston, alleging that he used the KaZaA peer-to-peer network to infringe copyrights in 30 sound recordings that they own. Joel is only the second of about 18,000 similar cases against individual accused p2p users to have made it all the way to trial. This case affects people who illegally share and download music because the use of p2p networks to download and "share" music without permission or payment is illegal, and has serious consequences which will show people who

illegally gain music will stop in fear of getting caught, or people will be encouraged to see if they will be caught. This case will affect Apple and other distributors by gaining buisness from downloaders, because people won't want to be sued over thousands of dollars they'll just pay the small fee on Apple for the songs, and do it legally.