C ASE S TUDY The Pirate Bay: The World’s Most Resilient Copyright Infringer? The Pirate Bay (TPB)‚ a Swedish Web site (Piratebay.org)‚ is one of the world’s most popular pirated music and content sites‚ offering free access to millions of copyrighted songs and thousands of copyrighted Hollywood movies. In June 2011‚ The Pirate Bay reported that it had about 5 m illion r egistered u s ers‚ a nd 25 m illion n on-registered u sers ( so-called "free riders "). To p ut t hat n umber i n p
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Hilda Peplau was an instructor at Teachers College at Columbia University where she developed curriculum in psychiatric nursing. This was during the cold war at a time when people were accusing each other of being communists which lead to lives being torn apart. Hilda was a victim of such a witch hunt being accused of using not normal teaching methods (Peplau‚ 2000). Dr. Peplau overcame these accusations‚ and finished one of her many doctorates. Her studies on nurse-patient relationships are still
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How do I use OS MasterMap data in my GIS? There are several software packages available that make the process of loading the OS MasterMap GML data into a GIS quite simple. These are in addition to the ’built-in’ converters that are supplied with the most recent versions of MapInfo‚ ArcGIS and AutoCAD software. For frequently asked questions and known issues please see the MasterMap FAQs and the MasterMap known issues in the MasterMap Download section of the Help pages (http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/webhelp/os/osdigimaphelp
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ENC1101 Dr. Brown July‚ 08‚ 2013 The Bay of Pigs On April‚ 17‚ 1961 the Bay of Pigs‚ the biggest foreign affairs disaster in U.S. history‚ occurred. At first the operation was supported but as the years went by the feelings of it changed‚ showing mostly in the policy changes of the some of the presidents over the next 49 years. June 24 1961 reporter Stewart Alsop published an article in the Saturday Evening Post titled “The Lessons of the Cuban Disaster.” In this article Alsop describes what
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University of Phoenix Material Determining Databases and Data Communications Read Scenario 1 and Scenario 2 below. Write a paper of no more than 1‚500 words in which you respond to the questions designated for both scenarios. Scenario 1: You are a marketing assistant for a consumer electronics company and are in charge of setting up your company’s booth at trade shows. Weeks before a show‚ you meet with the marketing managers and determine what displays and equipment they want to display. Then
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2013) For decades‚ university researchers pursuing energy innovations and solutions have been hindered by lack of research data on how people use electricity in their homes during the course of the day. But for the past two years‚ one U.S. university has attacked the problem directly. Students and faculty conducting energy and smart grid research at the University of Texas have had access to a treasure trove of knowledge found nowhere else on earth: billions of time-stamped data records from the
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Emmy Egulu To what extent can data influence our perception of how developed a country is? According to the Oxford dictionary‚ data is “facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis‚”[1] Society tends to think that the western world or MEDC’s are more developed than the eastern world or LEDC’s generally but this information can be resulted to being misleading or inconsistent. I think data has an influence on how we perceive a country by whether or not it is developed from statistics
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local politicians and innocent people in such a horrific manner? The causes go much deeper‚ in this essay I seek to describe the Morant Bay rebellion‚ identify its causes and results and state how significant was it in the development of post- emancipation. The origins of what took place on October 11‚ 1865 are much larger than any single event that immediately preceded the ‘Morant Bay Rebellion.’ They included years of neglect by a government that by no means represented the masses of former African
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Guantanamo Bay is a prison area near Cuba and is controlled by the American Navy. After the September 11‚ 2001 terrorist attack in the US‚ the US forces picked up about 600 people from various parts of the world and imprisoned them in the Guantanamo Bay prison on charges of aiding or involvement in this terrorist attack. In most cases‚ the governments of the countries to which these prisoners belonged were neither informed or was permission taken. It was done in such secrecy that even the families
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The Bay of Pigs was one of the main events that made the cold war. One of the causes of the Bay of Pigs incident was the USSR spreading communism to Cuba which then caused the Americans to bring in the policy of containment. Another cause of the Bay of Pigs was the revolutionary changes that occurred in Cuba when Fidel Castro came into power. An important consequence of the Bay of Pigs incident was the Cuban missile crisis. Another important consequence was when U.S.A and the USSR agreed on the molink
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