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“Scour Files for Bankruptcy Protection, written on October 13th, 2000, in the Los Angeles Times, Scour Inc. declared bankruptcy in 2000 due to numerous lawsuits around the notion of copyright infringement (Huffstutter). However, this did not stop Travis Kalanick from innovating new ideas. In 2001, with the same engineering team from Scour, Travis Kalanick launched a new organization called Red Swoosh. This organization was extremely similar to that of Scour, as it was another peer-to-peer file…

1. The individuals I believe that ought to be interviewed for this investigation are Mr. McBride, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. McBride’s co-workers, and the forensic expert(s) who examined the evidence. Mr. McBride is innocent till proving guilty of taking “Product X” from Greenwood and his statement should be gathered accordingly. Mr. Jenkins statement would also need to be gathered to collect information as to how he came to believe Mr. McBride potentially stole the information and what the consequences…

We accept rides from strangers, get random people to complete mundane tasks for us and allow people we’ve never met to stay in our homes. Indeed, the sharing economy – peer-to-peer transactions conducted via the Internet and smartphones has changed how people arrange car rides, find vacation, pick up their laundry and more . We no longer think it taboo to get into cars with strangers, request someone to pick up our groceries or share our personal property with people we’ve never met. But how…

discussions in courts. Nowadays, music downloading and peer-to-peer file-sharing are practices that have increased in giant steps as a result of the emerging technologies. The constant innovation of the websites and software has impacted the music and video industry in a way that thousands of norms and regulations have been created in order to protect others’ works, and prevent copyright infringement. The recording industry blames peer-to-peer file sharing for declining music sales and has…

seems that infringement can never be stopped. As the Copyright Amendment Act, 2012 restricts the removal of DRM from all copyrighted media, there will always be users who will crack the DRM and share their tricks with the others. Restriction of illegal file sharing is also very difficult to be enforced. There are currently a large number of users who illegitimately obtain music and movies via net,…

A Reading Response of “Free TV: File-Sharing and the Value of Television” by Michael Z. Newman Topic: The topic of Newman’s (2012) article presents the ever-changing value of TV shows as a public and private commercial enterprise. Modern TV shows have become private commercial property of TV networks, but the availability of “pirated” TV shows in P2P file-sharing networks has decreased their value. Ironically, the success of P2P file sharing has legitimized TV as a new “negotiation” of value in…

This is an ongoing issue for the movie industry that they must battle head on. 2. The business model of YouTube is differentiation. YouTube came about when the internet speed was increasing and allowed to download larger files. Before YouTube there was no place really for armature film makers to put their videos so the world could see. They not only came out with a better product, but it was new at the time. There were other places where you could post videos, but there…

Dark tourism, also known as grief tourism, is not a popular form of tourism in most countries but has occurred ever since people have the ability to travel. Within the last ten years, dark tourism has become increasingly popular with tourists, with websites like www.thecabinet.com naming the various dark attractions around the world (Dark Destinations, 2007). The term ‘dark tourism’ was coined by Malcolm Foley and J. John Lennon to describe “…the phenomenon which encompasses the presentation and…

Freedom of Music? The issue regarding downloading free music has been around for years, and consumers continue to have mixed opinions towards the issue. Should songs be available for free? Some people agree because they love free stuff, and it feels better to have free music downloads being legalized. In my opinion, songs should not be made free due to possible disasters in the music industry. Legalizing free music downloads will lead to disastrous effects in the economy and the music industry.…

I read that Ubuntu could read all windows files so I thought just using a flash drive would be sufficent. But, at first it didn 't read any files on the flash drive for some reason and I yet have to find a reason out why so I just ended up just uploading every file I needed to Dump Truck cloud storage and downloading it. Also, it found all the drivers my computer used so I didn 't have to do any of that…