Internet Piracy has become a worldwide phenomenon and continues to grow everyday. Illegal music downloads‚ movie downloads‚ and now even video games contribute to the growing problem. In the U.S. alone more than 100 songs are downloaded every minute. There are 71‚060 jobs that are lost in the United States every year due to Online Piracy. We have to admit that people pirate a lot of data. Whether it’s for video games‚ movies‚ professional and costly products‚ or operating systems‚ people pirate stuff
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Electronic musician‚ Aron Funk‚ also known as Venetian Snares‚ has been having financial problems. Snares is significantly popular in the electronic industry‚ who has produced an average of eight records per year since 1998. He has been working long enough to be successful‚ but he is not the problem . The record company he partnered shipped with has been losing customers‚ because they can now download Snares music for free; some interpret it as the loss of music’s value in customary lives. However
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What is plagiarism? Plagiarism can come in many forms‚ but the end result is that the plagiarist stole something from someone else. Plagiarism is using someone else’s ideas and information without acknowledging that person as the source. Like all other forms of theft‚ plagiarism has many disadvantages associated with it. Types of plagiarism Plagiarism can be both intentional‚ when you attempt to pass someone else’s work as your own‚ or unintentional‚ when you forget to properly cite the sources
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The Impact of Music Downloads and P2P File-Sharing on the Purchase of Music: A Study for Industry Canada by Birgitte Andersen* and Marion Frenz** Department of Management Birkbeck‚ University of London Malet Street‚ Bloomsbury LONDON WC1E 7HX‚ England‚ UK *Reader in the Economics and Management of Innovation‚ and Director of E-Business Programmes Tel: +44 (0)20 7631 6848 b.andersen@bbk.ac.uk ** Lecturer in Management Tel: +44 (0)20 7631 6829 m.frenz@bbk.ac.uk THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE THOSE
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Piracy is usually determined as a seizure of property (ship‚ airplane or software) that holds no commission from the owner ("Piracy" 1). It is mostly linked to the dirty‚ bearded men that sailed the seven seas and robed merchant ships or ships that carried a valuable cargo. This however‚ was not the case in the late eighties and is definitely not the case today in the nineties. Now software pirates copy software without the permission of the company for their own personal benefits. Since piracy
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Cited: "To Copy Or Not To Copy." http://www.spa.org/piracy/okay.htm. October 12‚ 1996. "Copyright Protection Campaign." http://www.spa.org/piracy/pi_back.htm. October 12‚ 1996. Laberis‚ Bill. "A Crime That Pays." Computerworld. 29.2 (1995): 34. Microsoft. "Microsoft Licensing Policies: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions." Microsoft Corporation
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1) The Sony (sic) Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 granted individuals copyright protection for their life plus 70 years. Do you believe that a period this long is necessary to encourage the production of creative work? What are the advantages and disadvantages of a longer copyright validity period? Before we can address copyright extension law we must first understand what a copyright is. A copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work‚
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Theft is the action of stealing something that belongs to someone else‚ but what if that which is stolen is never actually taken? The debate over what is to be done about a current issue involving “internet piracy” has been a hot topic in several countries‚ including the United States. The issue at hand is a claimed figure that allegedly spans upwards of 250 billion dollars translated to American currency in losses on behalf of several international multimedia franchises according to statistics
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Jupiter Research: Study on online music piracy and purchasing habits 13 November 2009 th There has been high-profile debate in the media about whether file-sharing has a positive or negative impact on music sales. The study below‚ which is original text from Jupiter Research‚ analyses in more detail the different spend of file-sharers‚ digital and physical music purchasers. Analysis Of The European Online Music Market Development And Assessment of Future Opportunities Music Sharers Are Less
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Recognizing and Avoiding Plagiarism Success Strategies in the Master of Science Program in Nursing September 23‚ 2013 Plagiarism There are few topics among scholars that will cause as much discussion as the topic of plagiarism. Perrin (2009)‚ describes how the word plagiarism is derived from the Latin word for kidnapping. There really is no better way to describe plagiarism than to call it kidnapping. Plagiarism may take many forms but it always involves claiming work is your own when it
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