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The music and video piracy is a controversial and bias topic that has arouses a myriad 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…

categories of materials that can be protected by a copyright are as follows; literary works such as books, poetry, speeches, these are protectable if they possess a high degree of uniqueness. Secondly, musical compositions such as cassette tapes, CDs or MP3s (any musical composition that has words) is protectable. There is also derivative works which are works that are new version of something that is already copyrighted. Computer software; all forms of computer programs are protected.…

Assistive Technology (AT) is technology that assists people of all ages with disabilities to be able to communicate, have mobility, and to help improve physical and mental activities that are difficult to perform on a daily basis. Technology is a great equalizer for individuals with disabilities to have full participation in which may otherwise be difficult to accomplish. Assistive technology in education is a tool/tools used in a classroom to help students have solutions that are accommodating…

One morning, a girl named Penelope VonCrink woke with a fright. She had dremt of her boyfriend, Jason, opening up her head and stealing her brain for ideas. After calming down from such a horrific dream, Penelope streched her arms for she felt as stiff as a brick. She tried to move her arms out, but for some reason, they wouldn’t move. “How strange,” Penelope thought, “I have never felt so tight. It must have been the dream. I think I should just get up and start walk around to loosen up.” But…

Daily travel The repetitive long journey to and from university is made bearable by the MP3 player. The ‘thinking allowed’ sociological podcasts of Laurie Taylor convince me I am not wasting time. Or the music I listen to offers me an escape method to an era I did not live through, but view with an artificial dreamlike longing and nostalgia. The utopia of 1970s Glam Rock offsets the dystopia of being climbed over by men who smell of alcohol and jabbed in the back with oversized backpacks on…

in popular activities like downloading music or movies, online chats, TV shows, etc. Google could not form the customer base because it had no online messaging or email app which its competitor (Baidu) had. Plus Baidu provided its users to download mp3 music and movies for free, which were restricted for free access by Google. Thus the mistake Google made was it did not research about its users and markets and it undermined its competitor. (Baidu) 2. The other major problem Chinese users faced…

Technological Breakthroughs People all around the world have been able to experience plenty of technological breakthroughs that have changed the way they live. I am only eighteen years old so I haven’t been around for a whole lot of major developments, but I have been on this Earth for quite a few of significant ones. There are three particular breakthroughs I am going to talk about today. The Global Positioning System, otherwise known as a GPS, Wi-Fi, and the IPod are all inventions that came…

and hoe fast we can get them done. For example, if you want to receive an email or call you would have to sit at your desk all day. But thanks to integration between different devices and Apple’s products, we no longer need to carry around a camera, MP3 player, or DVD player. Now all you need to carry is an iPhone because all of your other devices are on one iPhone device. You can slip it into your pocket and you’re ready to go. A great way to become socially…

Gregor’s metamorphosis is symbolic of this commodification of man. The labor’s wage is a mere overhead cost from the point of view of the entrepreneur. Though the laborer is paid, his product is taken away from him. After the acknowledgement of the entrepreneur’s contribution of providing the conditions for production, it is important to realize that it is not possible to produce without the workforce. The thoughts and skills of the laborer go into his production. There are two factors at play…

If you are still worried, you can bring something. In my case, though I thought I was ready, it was hard to neglect the steely stare, so I brought my MP3 player to listen to the soundtracks of Star Trek, or my phone to watch the trailer video of Tarantino’s next movie, the Great Movies by Roger Ebert to enlighten myself. Some teachers called me to their offices to ask me what had happened, and I told…