Digital Music Piracy Every day people through out the world are downloading millions upon millions of digital music from the Internet illegally. Using a Peer-to-peer file-sharing program integrated in websites like 4shared.com and MEGAUPLOAD.com. As having friends in the Music Industry‚ I do believe people should not break the copyright law and instead pay the music artists for their work. Although this ongoing issue is in a way hard to control‚ record label companies‚ Internet service providers
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The Impact of Music Piracy According to the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) the record industry loses $4.3 billion dollars‚ worldwide‚ due to music piracy (RIAA‚ 2003). The American Federation of Artists claims that on-line music piracy has caused some record store sales to drop by 20% and that 20.6 billion illegal downloads occur every month (AFM‚ 2004). Many experts believe that music piracy is currently the number one threat to the music industry. RIAA sources claim 278 million people
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can hear phrases such as‚ Move‚ bitch and‚ Ima bust a cap in yo punk ass. The game not only celebrates the gang lifestyle at a time when gang membership is rising nationwide‚ but makes a mockery of a tragedy thats all too real. This modern day entertainment‚ as one might call it‚ shown by video games‚ music‚ television‚ books‚ and blockbuster films‚ has the uncanny ability to destroy our society. It can invade and infect the minds of impressionable youth‚ encouraging drug-use‚ violence‚ and premarital
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modern world. Technology is anywhere in anytime. It has everything to offer.The internet is one of the products of technology. It is the general term that we use‚ while the World Wide Web is the specific term. With the use of computer and other devices/gadgets (cellphone‚ iPod‚ etc.) we can access the internet‚ and within the net we can go through different web sites that gives us information‚ services and entertainment. It can be applicable to all aspects of the society. It can be helpful in the field
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the privateer and the pirate of the 17th and 18th century. With Christopher Columbus discovery of the new world in 1492 and its un tapped wealth‚ a race would begin to see which nation could control this new-found power in the world. This new era of piracy in the Caribbean would begin in 1604 and with the ending of the Anglo-Spanish War that would cause a great significance and cause a shift in power on the open seas. With European expansion in the Caribbean and trading routes opening the nations
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How the Internet Changed the Music Industry COM/156 September 11‚ 2011 Large music labels have made statements since the late 1990s regarding the Internet’s damage to music sales through piracy by showing the decline of CDs sold year over year. However‚ the music labels themselves did not realize the sales opportunities that could be provided by the Internet and only saw a damaging environment. The same music labels also neglected to take advantage of the Internet as a new venue to find popular
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can make copies of it on your home computer. There is a wide underground market around the country that is involved in the manufacturing‚ distribution and sales of pirated movies. This may not be very important to many citizens. However‚ movie piracy is still wrong. It does not matter if the movie is copied and sold in high quantity or if it is copied from a friend for personal use. There are laws that confirm how copying movies without proper authorization is illegal. Those who copy and sell
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Global Entertainment REPORT on Music Piracy 05.11.2013. Music piracy Industry Comparative Study – Piracy Table of Content INTRODUCTION This report purpose is to analyze the piracy‚ and the industrial response to it‚ in the music industry concentrating on three pre-selected regions. The structure of the report consists of the analysis of the global context of the music industry‚ a more detailed analysis of the product and distribution situation
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The Internet (or internet) is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (often called TCP/IP‚ although not all applications use TCP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private‚ public‚ academic‚ business‚ and government networks‚ of local to global scope‚ that are linked by a broad array of electronic‚ wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range
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Piracy in the Caribbean Most of us today think of pirates as something that exists only in movies and literature‚ but 300 years ago this was a very different story. Much unlike what you may see in today’s pop culture piracy was a very fair and democratic system where crew members could elect their own captains and where Africans were considered equal to whites‚ a truly revolutionary concept for its time‚ considering that the use of slaves was a common practice at the time. Piracy in the Caribbean
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