File copying

I remember at an early age receiving my first cassette tape, which happened to be a gift from my mother. This tape contained the album “Surfin’ Safari” by The Beach Boys and was a life-long favorite of my mothers. I would play this tape over and over again, singing along with the band and dancing around to the sounds of the guitar. This was the earliest memory I have where I can clearly recall when my obsession with music began. From this early point, I began diverging into many different genres…

Copyright Infringement Reflection A Brief Introduction and Discussion of Illegal Sharing Yulei Xu Copyright violations are a common issue around the globe. Unlawfully obtaining of copyrighted materials through Peer-to-Peer(P2P) network is called “pirating”. It is the most popular among the ways copyrighted materials are shared unlawfully. According to statistics by the website GO-Gulf, the music industry suffers 12.5 billion in…

correlation between piracy, ethics, and the future of the music business will provide some insight into this question. Piracy is the process of acquiring music illegally without payment to the copyright owner (RIAA). Piracy includes sharing, downloading, copying, distributing and peer-to-peer sharing of music (RIAA). Those that are affected by music…

access their music for free. At the end Napster did survive even though they were purchased by another company. Napster wasn’t the only ones in the market for file sharing, there was still Hotline and UseNet. The difference with Napster and the other sites was that they were user friendly and had easier ways of accessing music and files from other people. Napster had about 80 million registered users. What the intention of Napster was to have easy access to the music for people that are…

storage closet I was brought back into the sales office and asked to try and fix a discrepancy. Kelly the sales manager in charge of corporate room nights, found a discrepancy in her personal files. Her personal file stated that she had sold 1022 corporate rooms for the month of September, but the main computer file stated that she had sold 1029. Kelly had compared numbers, fixed equation, and doubled checked her numbers but she could not figure out where the seven rooms came from. She asked me…

The revolution of illegal music sharing started in May 1999, when Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker launched software called Napster, a file sharing application through the Internet. In less than a year, Napster allowed more than 20 million people to share music in mp3 format, making it the most popular file sharing software on the Internet at that time. This huge community caused a major issue for the music industry. Since 1999, many sharing programs, which are copycats of Napster, have come and…

sentence makes no sense, it is the belief that all internet traffic should be treated equally. It became a big deal when in 2007, Comcast was intentionally slowing uploads from “peer to peer file sharing applications.” And they were basically trying to implement limits and differentiate charges for peer to peer, file transfer protocol, and online traffic. The big problem that arose from this is that other internet providers tried charging for data usage for people visiting what is considered to…

peer-to-peer file sharing revolution, which has become a perpetual machine in the present day. There are a limitless amount of websites these days that you can go to watch or stream television shows, movies, and music. The piracy community that exists on the internet could be compared to a Hydra when governments shut down one site, two more pop up. Is piracy really hurting the Entertainment Industry, or are they just crying wolf? Since 1999 when Napster revolutionized peer-to-peer file sharing,…

“Debunking the 9/11 Myths: Special Report” and “The Conspiracy Industry: Afterword to PM Expanded Investigation” are two articles both written for the Popular Mechanics magazine by James B. Meigs, the latter being written in 2006, one year after the former. “Debunking the 9/11 Myths: Special Report” is an in-depth analysis of conspiracy theories surrounding the 9/11 attacks and the factual evidence that refutes these theories. “The Afterword” is a reflective piece that describes the uprising of…

Three-Ring Binders and Organization Technical description of a Three-Ring Binder Atoshem Ghebrehiwet University of Virginia Sorted and well-maintained data is very critical to any organization. Businesses’ success relies on collecting consumers’ data, learning theirs social and behavioral patterns of consumption and delivering to them their needs. Moreover, to accomplish such a task, Businesses…