Dark Net The Dark Net is a computer network with restricted access that is used chiefly for illegal peer-to-peer file sharing. The dark net is a dangerous place on the computer, but are you safe from it? There were a few questions I asked myself about the dark net. Can the police control the dark net? Should the community be worried about the information on the dark net? What is my opinion on the dark net? The dark net is a place where visitors feel "safe", by being able to hide their internet…
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…
Napster to me was something that opened up a new wave of free music. From what I remembered about Napster, it was one of the first sites where you could get free music. The first thing we notice is the word free and after seeing that word free people don’t care about anything else. Napster opened up so many doors in the music industry, but not all of it was bad. For example, underground artist became more popular because the music files sharing. Therefore once you’re big in the music industry…
retribution. While several other artists have sought solace in confronting the websites that continually provide their music for free or veritably close to free. Peer to peer is abbreviated P2P. The words peer to peer means computer networks of computers can act as servers to share files and miscellaneous things without a central server. Peer-to-peer file sharing…
Recommendations In order to improve upon the vulnerabilities of the file sharing peer to peer networks many actions are needed beginning with the traditional client server model. This specific problem is what lead to Napster 's ultimate undoing. After a court ordered ruling that what Napster was doing was indeed a violation of copyrighted material it was very easy for the authorities to control the data stored on Napster 's server. By ordering Napster’s to shut down its central server the…
Even though companies lose out on billions of dollars in internet piracy they would have to spend even more money to monitor and censor the material. Some companies may even go to the extent of suing peer-to-peer networks and individual users across the globe, and just to find out that those users are just college students or low income people. Internet piracy is also beneficial to the artist and the consumers. Consumers can learn about new artists by…
and YouTube are big names in the music distribution industry. CD Baby, Tunecore, DistroKid, and Loudr are websites that can get your music on Spotify other streaming sites. (http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2014/05/29/digital-distribution-company-review/) Indie artists have a great time with these services because they are welcomed by these companies. (http://indiemusicpreneur.com/digital-distribution-service-price-comparison/) They make a decent living off the money they make on websites like…
In 2011, the way Americans listen to music was changed forever when the music-streaming service, Spotify was released. The name Spotify was created from the combination of the words “Spot” and “Identify”. Created in Sweden, the service has a free option. As defined by Techopedia, “Spotify is a new digital music service that enables users to remotely source millions of different songs on various record labels from a laptop, smartphone or other device”. In general, Spotify allows the user to…
Client Server model in Distributed Computing Nallagatla Manikanta 13116045 Distributed Computing: Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system is a software system in which components located on networked computers communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages. The components interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal. Distributed computing is a model in which components of a software system are…
A record label makes, distributes and markets sound recordings; basically at the end of the day they're out to make money. How has the music industry been affected by the Internet and digital downloading? This question is important because the Internet is the Music Industry's new problem. Music in today's world without the Internet will be the main question or main concern if we did not have it. Where would the music industry be without the Internet and the power to share files, MP3 waves and…