John Cunningham CSCE 4010 Spring 2013 Piracy and File Sharing With the exponential growth of technology over the past decade there have been many unforeseen controversial issues that have emerged. One of the main issues being the pirating of copyrighted material. With the invention of the internet‚ the sharing of information had become increasingly easier. But it was not until people began sharing copyrighted material that it became an ethical issue. The internet was used as a legal free exchange
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1. Do you think The Pirate Bay can continue to survive in a global Internet world? Why or why not? Ans. 1 The pirate Bay has millions of users accessing it daily and is ranked in the 100 top most visited website in the world and 10 top most in some part of the world. But due to legality issues many countries have refused to give ISPs in their country to host their site. They have law suits against them. There is a tough competition because of the new platforms and stores available where you
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I would consider the sharing and downloading of songs from the Internet to be wrong when a purchase isn’t made to obtain the download. When ecommerce is circumvented and a song is downloaded from the Internet the effects are felt beyond the large music record companies. The fans of that artist‚ the employees that manufacture the digital media‚ even you as the person downloading the content will have consequences. If the demand for a product is high the price for such product does not have to be
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Book review on All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front‚ a war novel‚ is a fictional novel by Erich Maria Remarque‚ a German veteran of World War I. The book was wrote in 1929 and has had two movies based on the book. Erich Maria Remarque was conscripted at the age of 18‚ and on the 12th June 1917 he was transferred to the Western Front. This may have provided Erich Maria Remarque with the idea that was behind All Quiet on the Western Front. I think it was a book written to
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Bakti vs Aarty & Dalang Dalang‚ who is an East Malaysia registered political party‚ employed Aarty to design for their website. Due to the general election is around the corner‚ Aarty decide to use one hundred percent (100%) of the manifesto which actually make for Bakti as Dalang’s manifesto. They also reused twenty five percent (25%) of the Bakti’s advertising campaign’s material for Dalang’s website as this was a last minute job. Direct infringement There are three components to be present for
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jazy brunet conelly peroid 4 Ratifying the Constitution Due to the monarchial rule under George III the people lacked governmental power. There are two sides to ratifying the Constitution. The Federalists who want to adopt the Constitution and the Antifederalists who wanted to keep the Articles of Confederation. Many Antifederalists believed that the governmental power should rest in the states‚ and the central government should remain weak. There were also many Federalists who believe
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1. Why did TPB believe it was not violating copyright laws? What did the Swedish Court rule? The Pirate Bay believed it was not violating copyright laws because they said that they were merely a search engine similar to Google or Bing and were just providing the access or link to existing P2P networks that TPB does not itself control or run. They believed that since they weren’t actually providing the information or the files that consumers were looking for they were not violating
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Shay’s Rebellion http://www.termpaperwarehouse.com/essay-on/Shays-Rebelion/44327 http://shaysrebellion.stcc.edu/shaysapp/artifact/category.do?ID=2 Daniel Shay’s rebellion showed the weakness of a limited government. p.216‚ 220 Bailey‚ Thomas Andrew‚ David M. Kennedy‚ and Lizabeth Cohen. The American Pageant. Boston: Houghton Mifflin‚ 1998. Print. Boyer‚ Paul S. The Enduring Vision. Belmont‚ CA: Wadsworth‚ 2009. Print. PRIMARY SOURCES Gazette‚ Hampshire‚ comp. "A
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Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing: What is the risk? Every day‚ millions of computer users share files online. Whether it is music‚ games‚ or software‚ file-sharing can give people access to a wealth of information. You simply download special software that connects your computer to an informal network of other computers running the same software. Millions of users could be connected to each other through this software at one time. The software often is free and easily accessible. Sounds promising‚ right
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A. 1. Give an outline of the attitudes to copyright violation and illegal downloading as presented in texts 1 and 3. Texts 1 and 3 represent two opposing attitudes to copyright violation and illegal downloading in today’s technologic world. In text 1‚ “It’s Evolution‚ Stupid”‚ by co-founder of The Pirate Bay‚ Peter Sunde‚ Sunde displays his growing dissatisfaction with the current copyright law. As the co-founder of one of the world’s most popular torrent downloading sites‚ he claims that copyright
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