File system

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…

composers, like Taylor Swift, who are having their copyrights infringed on when people pirate their music. However, music piracy is still consistently done across the United States with about “20 million people still [getting] music through peer-to-peer file-sharing” (Faughnder,2015). As…

piracy. The interviewees claim that file sharing and piracy promotes creativity, because intellectual property owners need to come up with new and creative ways to earn a profit from their work. Additionally, the interviewees say, piracy is promoting creativity in the general population as well. File sharing has created thousands of new singers, rappers, and DJs, because anyone can take a copyrighted song, and remix it, or use parts of it in their own songs. Free file sharing, the interviewees…

Throughout the history of popular music culture, common experiences among people of different cultures were shared by way of music, dating all the way back to the early 1920s from wax cylinders to vinyl records to cassette tapes. With rapid improvements in technology over the past three decades, the audio encoding format, the mp3, which would become one of the most innovative inventions of the 20th century, has led to many unforeseen problems and changes to the way popular nusic culture…

of their own.” (Encyclopaedia.com, 2016) When the MP3 came out in the late 90’s it revolutionized the way music is consumed. It allowed files to be compressed down to one twelfth of it’s original size without being distorted. It is this format that gave birth to digital…

The music of the younger generation always seems to strike fear into the hearts of the older generation. One only has to think of the beginnings of Rock and Roll and how the older crowd predicted youthful promiscuity, violence and anarchy. It’s easy to see why the idea of censoring music came about and how that idea still plays out in the music of today’s youth. One only has to listen to certain songs on the radio today to find that the “bleep” of censorship is still in fashion. Oddly enough…