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Same Fans, New Technology Eleonor S. | Female | Age 86 (Bio 1): Eleonor was born in 1931 and was raised in Haiti. As a middle child in a set of 12, Eleonor was exposed to a broad scope of opinions about music and the world she lived in. She was raised as a Baptiste and converted to a Seventh Day Adventist later in life. Eventually, Eleonor married and had six children of her own. Her father in Law, Augustin Bruno, was a successful musician playing the saxophone for the Haiti’s National Palace…

Rebecca McKenney Information Ethics Doctor Yaw 27 April 2018 Is Remixing Fair Use? In today’s world, it can be difficult to create something original without borrowing from someone else’s ideas. One of the ways that people combine originality and previously published works is through mashups or remixing. Even though some of these works are protected under copyright, do we still have the right to use this pervious material to create something new? In order to determine the answer, we must…

It has become so easy to get content for free on the Internet. For example, all that is needed to get a song from YouTube is a quick search for YouTube to MP3 and the ability to click ‘download’. This is all thanks to availability-- what once was limited to hard copies such as CDs can now be pulled up by the touch of a button. Overall, the dawn of new technology and media has changed the ideas of piracy by altering the methods used by individuals to find and share content and forcing government…

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…

organisations is less prominent today, a new form of theft known as digital piracy has been a global issue that has plagued the creative industries, as well as many other industries ever since the creation of peer-to-peer file sharing systems such as NAPSTER. Many attempts have been made in an effort to curb digital piracy such as the raid on the outfit which hosted ‘The Pirate Bay’ in Sweden during 2006 which resulted in the confiscation of enough equipment to fill 3 trucks and the takedown of…

Since the market in the music industry was at the top of its earnings in the late 90’s, the major music major companies have experienced a decline in revenue. The revolution of the Internet and the emergence of file-sharing with companies such as Napster and Torrent may contribute to this result. It seems like newly emerged platforms will not bring another golden age of the music industry again in the future in the same manner as before. Not only that, but also people prefer a digital format…

Since the dawn of time, the controversial debate on whether copyright piracy has a negative or positive effect on the entertainment industry, has been going on. Copyright piracy is "the action of duplicating, taking, or the usage of copyright material without permission" as defined by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) (ehow). Copyright piracy in the Entertainment industry ranges anywhere from illegal downloading an MP3 off a torrent website, to illegally streaming a TV show not available on…

The new technology allows music to be distributed everywhere in the world. Music accompanied people when they listen to music on the radio, listen to music through their personal devices when they workout or having a trip to their destination. Music conveys ideas and concepts that the artists hope their audiences to listen. Audiences receive the messages and impressions depend on their personal depiction of their music experience, which in turn, some music allows audiences to relief their…

Satanist. Metallica is not known for wild theatrics during their concerts but their behaviors after their concerts, as well as their professional dealings, have been a source of controversy within their career. They were the first band to sue Napster for piracy which really angered their fans. Their excessive use of drugs and alcohol, as well as their sexual promiscuity while married, also altered fan’s view of them. The drugs, alcohol and loose morals have all led to…

through what some would call modern day piracy. The more accepted term used is file sharing, and it is just that: sharing files over the web, typically illegally. File sharing has been a controversy who’s legality has been frivolously debated since Napster in 1999. (Oberholzer) File sharing has been exaggerated to be an instrument of theft, thus leading to the downfall of the music industry. However, thanks to file sharing, users have been exposed to music they would have otherwise never…