File system

Copyright laws have grown to become a very prominent issue in this country. As the number of developers, artists, and other cretaors increases, the more subjects we have available to compare to other objects, the higher chances there are that two of said objects will be considered similar enough that one of the, or even perhaps both parties involved will feel cheated by the other, giving context on the increasing amount of copyright laws and trials. The cases of Sony 's Betamax and Grokster 's…

Piracy is a long-standing issue in the recording industry and has become one of the many reasons for a decline in the economics of the music business. There is no doubt that it is wrong to pirate music, it is after all illegal. However, there is little research about the ethical decision behind pirating. Is there a connection behind ethical beliefs and the belief that pirating is wrong? The correlation between piracy, ethics, and the future of the music business will provide some insight into…

“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…

'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…

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,…

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…

assessments. These included AS 1.41, AS 1.43, AS 1.45, AS 1.46, and AS 1.50. In completing these assessments, I have became more familiar with the applications that were used to complete these internal assessments, and has given me a better understanding for file structure. Assessments Completed AS 1.43 - First assignment: Website. This required me to create and design a website. I used the application ‘Brackets’. It was important to know common language for Brackets so we could create a…

Illegal downloading also known as file sharing enables people throughout the world to share information such as movies, music and documents. The various industries have been effected by the activities of illegal downloading. Music artists around the world were losing out on thousands if not millions of dollar worth of profit from CD sales. The illegal downloading will make the owner give up and they will not interest produce materials with the loss that they have to face. In this situation,…

Piracy is defined in Webster’s dictionary as, “the act of attacking and stealing from a ship at sea” (www.merriam-webster.com) this was the common use for the word until a new form of piracy arose. Digital piracy which can be defined as, “the act of illegally copying someone 's product or invention without permission”( www.merriam-webster.com) is now the more common version of the word. After, the rise of the internet it allowed for easy access of music and films and with policies lagging behind…

Current Situation Illegal Downloading Since the Internet began, people have been sharing files with each other around the world. Many of these files are music, video, and other forms of media. But these files are illegal copies of intellectual properties, which are being given away without compensation to the IP owners. This has become a large problem for the music industry and other digital formats of media. File sharing websites have been around the Internet for years, but the former world…