File sharing

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…

music industry since it is the only field that shows the significant impact digital technologies has made on the patterns of consumption, production and distribution. Now with the availability of software that can compress sound and store it smaller files, the spread of digital communication instruments like the Internet are changing the strategy of recording companies which…

The new technology allows music to be distributed everywhere in the world. Music accompanied people when they listen to music on the radio, listen to music through their personal devices when they workout or having a trip to their destination. Music conveys ideas and concepts that the artists hope their audiences to listen. Audiences receive the messages and impressions depend on their personal depiction of their music experience, which in turn, some music allows audiences to relief their…

revenues stay the same … Comcast[s] blocking of BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer file-sharing is an example of this.” (Schewick, 32) This approach makes sense for the ISP, but it does not help the user and furthermore invalidates the idea of net neutrality. If an ISP is to block any sort of information accessible online, they invalidate the rules of net neutrality, as well it can inconvenience the user. Peer-to-peer file transfer is a commonly used means of transferring illegal/copyrighted…

'The law can never keep pace with technological change ' Area of Technology: Digital Copyright and the Law The role of law in regulating your area of technology The role of law in digital copyright is to ensure that the integrity of people’s work is upheld by ensuring their created content is not accessed nor distributed illegally. In the cases where copyright is infringed then it is the role of the law to ensure that the correct punishment is administered to the person or group that has…

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,…

shut down in July of 2001 because their music sharing was illegal and many industries didn’t like that people were able to 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…

A lesson plan was written up for a Year 5 Humanities and Social Science lesson covering the curriculum content, why people work in groups to achieve their aims, and how they can express their shared beliefs and values and exercise influence (ACHCK027) (Australian Curriculum, n.d.). The completed lesson plan was then emailed to three peers and the unit tutor. The peers and tutor were to review and provide constructive feedback on how the lesson plan could be improved. Through the process of…

Internet piracy is a controversial issue when it comes to whether or not it affects the entertainment industries since the start of twenty-first century. The scholarly article, written by Koster, called “Fighting Internet Piracy: The French Experience With The Hadopi Law”, is about internet piracy cause a decrease the revenue in music industry and the French decided to create a law in order to help music industry’s revenue from decline any further. The law is called Hadopi and its objectives…

Music has become increasingly available, beginning with the rapid distribution of sheet music to the invention of the record player to having any song in the world available from an online streaming service. Music has become a daily part of people’s lives, whether an individual is consciously aware of it or not. Music can be heard being played in the background of a commercial, out loud on the speakers at a sporting event, or played on the radio while driving in ones’ car. The prior…