Anti-Slavery International

Stealing. Whether consciously or unconsciously, stealing has been an activity undertaken by the human condition, possibly even before the start of recorded history. Although stealing physical goods from individuals and organisations is less prominent today, a new form of theft known as digital piracy has been a global issue that has plagued the creative industries, as well as many other industries ever since the creation of peer-to-peer file sharing systems such as NAPSTER. Many attempts have…

The psychoanalytic theory “The divided self” by Rd Laing describes how everyone has multiple personalities that changes depending on the environment they are in. McMurphy from the novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is a prime example of someone with a divided self. He is placed in an environment that challenges and tests him as a person. As a result, he has created his own two personas each with their own goals and moral compass. Nurse Ratched, his main antagonist, knows about his personal…

According to Deborah G. Johnson, in the case of Franklin v. Apple, Franklin copied Apples operating code without any alterations, this was a clear copyright infringement act. However, these cases aren’t always obvious, that’s where fair use comes in and is disputed in the federal courts. There are four factors of fair use and a fifth, unofficial factor. According to Rich Stim, the first factor is: The Purpose and Character of Your Use. The court will examine if the material taken from the…

Blown to Bits Chapter 6: Balance Toppled Summary: Chapter 6 of Blown to Bits is a very interesting chapter. Chapter six dives into the often undefined world of copyright rights in computing. Copyright laws allow people to have full rights over their creative works and ideas, but this concept does not translate very well into the world of technology. Because information can be transferred with unparalleled ease in the computing age, intentional and unintentional copyright violations have become…

Hactivism as a process has a dual-edged character. The organised activity exposes the “transparency and accountability” (Diamond 71) of global power exploitation. However, such methods are seen questionable in the accountability and transparency of their practice(s). The main concern with hactivism is the preconceived notions of its values are translated offline as vigilantism. However, the whole concept of vigilantism is based on the idea of not condoning individual action to exercise…

TEXTBOOK OVERVIEW Intellectual property is a field of law that has been steadily growing and changing over the years as countless new inventions are patented and protected. Intellectual property is defined as “something that is literally created.” This can be applied in two major ways; that represented by a physical item, such as an invention of “equipment, or machinery”, and that represented by ideas, such as artwork, dance, and literature. This type of property is protected by patents and…

Online Piracy in the United States Thousands of people every day pirate movies, music, and video games in the United States. Online Piracy is the illegal downloading of any online item that is meant to be bought, but is pirated so anyone can get it for free. Online piracy in today’s society is considered a major crime, and if caught it can lead to serious repercussions. Online piracy should not be considered a crime, and should not be handled like America is handling it right now. In today’s…

De Stijl’s most outstanding painter was Mondrian, whose art was rooted in the mystical ideas of Theosophy. Although influenced by his contact with Analytical Cubism in Paris before 1914, Mondrian thought that it had fallen short of its goal by not having developed toward pure abstraction, or, as he put it, “the expression of pure plastics” (which he later called Neoplasticism). In his search for an art of clarity and order that would also express his religious and philosophical beliefs, Mondrian…

The paper “Hidden Intellectualism” by: Gerald Graff is a very interesting and thought-provoking essay. Graff’s main theme appears to be that school should use topics that students are interested in to teach them, in which I agree because it allows students to make connections from their life outside of school. The main idea is very well supported by studies done by research. The essay starts out with the problem that knowing about the outside world is useless in today's schools. “One who is…

“Nothing, in this film, symbolizes anything” (Buñuel). Both Dali and Buñuel strived to have no image or idea in the film, Un Chien Andalou, have any logical or rational explanation. However, when you break up what Buñuel says you can argue that “nothing” stands for all the images and ideas in the film that to one represent nothing logical or rational, and these images can “symbolize anything” to the individual. When making this film, Buñuel’s intentions were to astound and offend the bourgeois…