Knowledge sharing

Music has always been a major part of the Australian media. Homan & Mitchell (cited in Cunningham 2010, p.219) states that perhaps more than any other medium, popular music intersects with and influences the uses of other media in everyday life. Whiteoak (cited in Cunningham 2010, p. 217) points out that popular music involves the different forms of music and music making that are accessible and enjoyed by a large number of people. The paper will focus on the changing nature of content,…

secret that file sharing, legal or illegal, is on the rise. For most folks in their twenties today, they may not be aware of a world without piracy. In fact, they may not even be aware that certain kinds of file sharing is illegal and punishable by law. To understand why file sharing is so prevalent in modern society, the background of this kind of sharing needs to be explored. Napster began in June of 1999 by Shawn Fanning, John Fanning, and Sean Parker as a peer-to-peer file sharing system.…

create something that allowed people share their music with other people. They were 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…

When home computers became readily available, burning CDs and peer to peer sharing between friends was even more popular and was damaging the music industry. But the revolution of high-speed Internet and everything that came with it left a greater scar on the music industry. When music streaming became popular, there began to be…

Travis dropped out of the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998 to help create an organization called Scour Inc. Scour Inc is a multimedia search engine and a peer-to-peer sharing service. Interestingly, according to P.J Huffstutter, in his article “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…

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 manifested their…

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…

Nicholas Checa IS 300 T/TH 2:00 YouTube Case 1. There are a few competitive forces that have challenged the movie industry in the past decade. For example, with the creation of online streaming there was a big increase of illegal downloads that have begun to happen. Substitutions are popping up all over the web to illegally attain videos instead of paying for them. This creates more bargaining power for the customers, because instead of paying rental fees or buying high priced movies,…

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.…