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change this. Copyright laws are already in place prohibiting this records versus Napster case (“Real Business”). Napster was a popular peer-to-peer file sharing network that launched in 1999. It had an amazingly large fan-base of music lovers who shared mp3s. The court ruled against Napster and the company was forced to shut down the site after making a public apology and paying $26m in damages. The part that really sticks out as to how the copyright law wasn’t taken serious is the fact that…

Equity and expectancy theories are both process prospective (Kinicki & Williams, 2013). Process prospective are the thought processes by which people decide how to behave. Marshall Metro’s attempts to motivate students and teachers are based heavily in both equity and expectancy theory. Although both theories have some flaws they affected students and teachers alike at Marshall Metro. Equity theory is based on fairness or the perception of fairness (Kinicki & Williams, 2013). This theory focuses…

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…

Yes, sharing music files through the internet does in fact violate copyright laws. Copyright gives limited monopolies to holders on the reproduction, display, and distribution of that copyrighted work. When you purchase copyrighted work, or it is given to you, you have limited use of it with no right of distributing it. You have every right to listen to the CD you have purchased and even let your friend borrow the disk, but you cannot give a copy of that CD to your friend without having the…

to apple? As seemingly everyone on the planet knows, Steve Jobs’ defining quality was perfectionism. The development of the Macintosh, for instance, took more than three years, because of Jobs’ obsession with detail. He nixed the idea of an internal fan, because he thought it was noisy and clumsy. And he wanted his engineers to redesign the Mac’s motherboard, just because it looked inelegant. At NeXT, the company Jobs started after being nudged out of Apple, in 1985, he drove his hardware team…

The readings I completed this week really got me thinking about the transformations of music over the years. I have gained a lot more knowledge about the ethics of music and how technology has opened doors for artists and how it has affected the music world for both listeners and the artists themselves. For my response journal this week, I would like to discuss two important areas from the chapters of the book, ‘Capturing Sound’ by Mark Katz that I found really intriguing. One area would be…

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defined. • Sound files: There are two different types of sound files:https://dub114.mail.live.com/ol/ .wav is the high sample rate which means that this will be high quality and large file size. MP3 is the low sample rate which means that this has lower quality and smaller file size. This is why MP3 can store so much music. Overall the higher the sample rates the better quality it will be. • Video files:  Avi- biggest file which is generally not suitable for internet…

It is amazing to see how religion has made such an impact on music and dancing. As far back as the Renaissance religion had an enormous impact on both. During the Renaissance it was mostly the Roman Catholic Church that had powerful control. If you were a troubadour or trouvères participating in secular music and not in the office or mass participating in Gregorian Chant than you were considered part of the lowest social class. However, if it was not for the troubadours and trouvère we probably…

qualitative and quantitative methods. 3.1Application of theories In carrying out the research, Papyrina (2012) sought to hold the informational influence constant by allowing each participant in the research the same information about the products (MP3 Players)used. The research emphasized the need for each individual to be accepted by and be identified as a member of the group. Therefore, Papyrina (2012) expects that normative and referent informational influences will be the only…