The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales An Empirical Analysis * Felix Oberholzer Koleman Strumpf Harvard Business School UNC Chapel Hill foberholzer@hbs.edu cigar@unc.edu March 2004 Abstract A longstanding economic question is the appropriate level of protection for intellectual property. The Internet has drastically lowered the cost of copying information goods and provides a natural crucible to assess the implications of reduced protection. We consider the specific
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Literacy May 26th‚ 2011 Should Music-Sharing Programs be outlawed in the United States? Research Question: Should music-sharing programs be outlawed in the United States? The reason I chose to research the topic dealing with illegal music-sharing and the websites that facilitates this was because I think that we are ALL guilty of this at one time or another in our lives. How far do we need to go in order to police files sharing online‚ specifically music files? I hope to be able formulate an answer
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Banning File Sharing Sites In an article found in Just do IP (Issue 42‚ August 25‚ 2000) Talal Shamoon states‚ "People are copying music because they feel somewhat disenfranchised with the options they have at their disposal in the digital space. It’s up to the content industry to create value in the digital arena and they’ve made phenomenal steps in that direction." District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled in favor of the Recording Industry Association of America (http://www.riaa.com/) (RIAA)
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KINDS OF COMPANIES Legal Environment and Business What is a company? A Company is a voluntary association of persons formed for the purpose of doing business‚ having a distinct name and limited liability. They can be incorporated under the Companies Act (it may be any type of company) Corporations enacted under special enactments ( Even those which are incorporated outside India) Corporate sole Any other body corporate notified by the central government Features of a
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the participants of illegal file sharing do not directly hurt another person‚ they cause loss of profits for companies. By downloading music‚ videos and illegal programs‚ the respective industries are losing profits. Although one user will not make a big difference‚ if all consumers started downloading illegal files‚ soon the industry could no longer function and the industry would collapse. Also‚ when companies realize a large majority of consumers are using illegal files‚ they lose their incentive
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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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File Sharing and the Revenue of the Creative Industries Introduction File sharing hosts‚ who provide online storage to share various files ripped from media like recorded music‚ films‚ and books‚ have been considered as a type of internet piracy that threatens the creative industries‚ including films‚ music‚ software‚ and books. (Van Eijk‚ 2011) However‚ after the shutdown of Megaupload‚ one of the most popular file hosting site‚ a series of ripple effect happened‚ causing several other file sharing
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Allan Moulter‚ CEO of Quality Care is in dilemma to install computerized system or not because of the uncertain behaviour of customers. The objectives are to retain existing customers‚ to maintain customers’ satisfaction and to improve service quality. The alternatives are to implement the new system or not to implement the system or implement the system parallel to current manual system. The decision is to implement computerized system parallel to manual system initially
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increases by a hundred percent in a one-year period. Over long periods of time‚ investments in a diversified portfolio of common stocks have earned positive returns‚ whereas long-term venture results in negative returns. This study aims to provide an understanding what the risks of investing in common stocks are and knowing the ways to reduce it helps in managing investments to earn positive returns. In essence‚ the objectives‚ personal characteristics‚ and time frame outline the level of risk an investor
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runlevel 3 and be the very last daemon to load. 3. What should the link to start the daemon be named? Pg 426‚427 s99analyzed 4. What command would stop the analyzed daemon? Pg 427 service analyzed stop 5. What command would tell the system at which runlevels to start analyzed? Pg 430 chkconfig -level 35 analyzed 6. What command would let you most safely switch to runlevel 2 without rebooting the computer? Pg 431 Telinit 2 7. What type of control does SELinux implement? Pg 414
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