that music industries make”. While this may be true for the music industry as a whole‚ individual artists do suffer significant financial losses from websites like Napster. At these sites millions can instantly download music illegally without any consequences. Users glorify Napster ‚along with other sites similar‚ to the fact that Napster is perfect for expulsion of artists. A Palmdale High Student‚ Cassandra Brito‚ states‚ “Free downloads
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Gulf Petroleum Investment Company (GPI) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review On 20th January 2015 Summary Gulf Petroleum Investment Company (GPIC)is an oil and gas service provider. The company provides services in the areas of oil‚ gas‚ and petrochemical sectors. Its business areas include reservoir management and services optimization‚ oil wells engineering‚ reservoir development and planning‚ oil field implement‚ reservoir monitoring and control‚ crude oil and petroleum product trading
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The Birth of Napster To The Death of Privacy One of the most debated issues before our society is the issue of internet privacy. Privacy is such a valued concept that in today ’s world we pay good money in order to keep intruders out of our computer systems and out of our lives. Peer-to-Peer downloading is a major factor to the internet privacy issue. Peer-to-Peer downloading (also known as "file sharing") is considered by Microsoft to be "the act of making files on one computer accessible
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organization operates and on the organization itself‚ in order to formulate strategy. A number of tools are used in the process of strategic analysis‚ including PEST and/or SWOT analyses‚ and Michael Porter’s five forces model. http://www.bnet.com/topics/strategic+analysis http://www.ehow.com/about_5085518_reason-use-swot-pestle-analysis.html PEST Analysis The PEST analysis is a framework that is used during strategic analysis to scan the external macro-environment in which a firm operates
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Napster is a very popular web site that allowed many users to share music files. The way that Napster shared music files is through peer-to-peer sharing. These files that are called MP3’s (Motion Picture Expert Group 1‚ Audio Layer 3: an algorithm that compresses digital music files) were shared between registered users anonymously at no cost to the users. The format of MP3’s reduces the files allowing users to quickly and easily share these files. MP3’s can also be copied multiple times without
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America (RIAA) to crack down on companies such as Napster that provided that provided free music downloads. The number of lawsuits against individuals who illegally download music has escalated to the point that people are now switching to legal internet sites that sell music downloads. The ethicality of this issue has touched many people throughout the world
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Ethical Dilemma of Napster The ethical dilemma of computer downloads‚ namely music downloads‚ has been under great scrutiny in the last few years. Napster‚ if any one symbolizes the new technology‚ was the front runner in developing the new digital trading. The ethical issues seem to revolve around the all mighty dollar. Some particular musicians‚ namely Lars Ulrich from Metallica and Dr. Dre (rap star)‚ have had some serious issues with Napster. Their claims have merit‚ but so do the claims
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1) What trends in networking in the 1990’s and early 2000’s drove the popularity of Napster? What other technologies contributed to Napster’s success? Before the 1990’s‚ if people want to listen to music‚ they just visit a music store and pick up a CD and then put it into a stereo equipment. However‚ the development of MP3 file format gradually changed the way people listen to music. This format lets everyone download music easily and it can be converted to CD as well. But‚ there is still a problem:
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Presentation Transcript KFC: KFC Case study of KFC BACKGROUND OF KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKENS(KFC): BACKGROUND OF KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKENS(KFC ) KFC is based in Louisville‚ Kentucky‚ and is the world’s most popular chicken restaurant. Founded by Colonel Harland Sanders in the early 1930s by cooking & serving food for hungry travellers. In 1952 Sanders started franchising his chicken business & named it as KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN. KFC is the world’s largest restaurant company in terms of system
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of Napster on online distribution of music? How do they affect traditional companies? Napster introduced a revolutionary change to the way music was distributed conventionally. Music companies worked with the artists to produce music. Thereafter they invested heavily into burning the music CD’s‚ marketing and advertising of the music and managing the distribution of the music to end customers via retailers. Retailers incurred staffing and real estate and costs. In contrast to this‚ Napster was
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