piracy and illegal file shares is becoming a bigger issue in modern day society‚ more likely with the youth of society. All computers now come with burn-ware technologies in which the user can take a product and create copies of that software. Originally‚ this process was created in order to provide methods of backing up a person’s computer files‚ in case of hardware crashing and system reboots. However‚ the situation has changed. People are now able to copy any type of media file (DVDs‚ CDs‚ operation
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Final Exam Essay Today there are thousands upon thousands of musical artists trying to get recognized in the world of music. Getting recognized is only the first step however‚ because it has become nearly impossible for artists to make any profit at all‚ from the recordings of their songs. With tons of different methods and ways to illegally download nearly every song released to date‚ artists must turn their attentions to new fashions of gaining popularity. Therefore‚ the consumption of recorded
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may find this surprising. After all‚ compact discs may be easily be copied multiple times with inexpensive CD-R burning technology. 3. How much can you get fined for illegally downloading music? c. Fines for illegal downloading (and for sharing music) run a fairly wide gamut. The minimum penalty for downloading or distributing‚ according to the RIAA’s website‚ is $750 per song. As has happened in previous cases‚ however‚ that rate can run into the thousands and even the hundreds of thousands
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loss for the more traditional forms of anything. Think of a photographer. Many don’t use film anymore because it costs a lot more than digital photography -- but they forget that digital files might not actually last as long as they thought... not to mention getting corrupted files that can cause you to lose the files all together. To the seasoned musician‚ that analogy should be yet another reason to see your music played on the occasional cheap record player‚ instead of only through digital means
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Criminal penalties can run up to five years in prison and/or $250‚000 in fines‚ even if you didn’t do it for monetary or financial or commercial gain. · If you did expect something in return‚ even if it just involves swapping your files for someone else’s‚ as in MP3 trading‚ you can be sentenced to as much as five years in prison. · Regardless of whether you expected to profit‚ you’re still liable in civil court for damages and lost profits of the copyright holder. ·
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Bay and Kickass torrents making it as simple as a few clicks away‚ downloading illegal copies of music‚ TV shows‚ movies and other software has never been easier. In the second quarter of 2014‚ an estimated 10 billion movies‚ TV shows and many other files had been downloaded worldwide. Six percent of that was illegal downloads‚ 600 million illegal downloads in just a three month period. Copyright infringement is one of the many horrible things that happens today and we need to come up with a better
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the peers. Gnutella and Freenet are examples of a pure P2P network. In a hybrid P2P network‚ a central server exists to perform certain “administrative” functions to facilitate P2P services. Only a catalogue of available files is kept on the server‚ while the actual files are scattered across the peers on the network. Example: BitTorrent (BT)‚ where a central server called a tracker helps coordinate communication among BT peers in order to complete a
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Illegal Downloading Contents & Entertainment Industry Jae Seong Park English of Canada Do you know that how many important a music or movie is? As time goes by‚ nowadays people live in a hectic world and even today’s society advocates and requires this phenomenon. Most people who have a job usually work in weekdays and take a rest on weekends. Even some people work seven days a week. As developing modern industry‚ amount of people’s leisure time is decreasing more and more. Thus‚ when people
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The article written by Loughry and Tosi was based on a deductive theory. They focused their research on how effective can an organization be where feedbacks from peers acting as agents could influence their co-workers performance and behavior in an informally controlled management. Thus‚ trying to understand the effectiveness of monitoring‚ work-unit performance and an individual’s satisfaction in performing well for a reward system in an organization. Highlighting the two research question “What
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stealing from impersonal and invisible others than they do from visible persons” (Gupta 258). Many people don’t view illegal downloading as stealing because they are not physically taking something from someone else – they are simply downloading a file from the Internet‚ invisible to both the musicians and authorities. Globally‚ 10.6 million songs are downloaded
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