Peer-to-peer

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…

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 recording industry blames peer-to-peer file sharing for declining music sales and has…

Arjun Nair We Raise Robots, Not Children “I felt it was better to take my life than to accept failure,” recalled Christine, a Harvard student who recently reported her suicide attempt to Harvard’s student newspaper, The Crimson. Christine toiled in high school to gain admission into Harvard, believing that an education at the prestigious institution would make her happy. Instead, the high pressure environment turned what she saw as failures into suicidal thoughts (Hatoff). This mental…

its revenues stay the same … Comcast[s] blocking of BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer file-sharing is an example of this.” (Schewick, 32) This approach makes sense for the ISP, but it does not help the user and furthermore invalidates the idea of net neutrality. If an ISP is to block any sort of information accessible online, they invalidate the rules of net neutrality, as well it can inconvenience the user. Peer-to-peer file transfer is a commonly used means of transferring illegal/copyrighted…

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…

appropriate topic of dress at church (Lecture). Outside of school, I am a peer to peer sex educator for Planned Parenthood, because of this I own Planned Parenthood clothing. I attended three conservative churches dressed in a t-shirt, hoodie and jeans. The t-shirt is bright pink and says “Planned Parenthood” on the front in lighter baby pink. Over this, I wore a light grey zip-up sweatshirt which stated “Teen Council” on the front and “Peer Led Sex Ed” on the back. I paired this with dark jeans…

business can reach its customers and suppliers from virtually anywhere. They can use social media to stay in contact with their customers. What are some of the business benefits and management challenges of client/server networks? Network computing? Peer-to-peer…

We accept rides from strangers, get random people to complete mundane tasks for us and allow people we’ve never met to stay in our homes. Indeed, the sharing economy – peer-to-peer transactions conducted via the Internet and smartphones has changed how people arrange car rides, find vacation, pick up their laundry and more . We no longer think it taboo to get into cars with strangers, request someone to pick up our groceries or share our personal property with people we’ve never met. But how…

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…

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…