Piracy and Its Regulation: Filipino’s Historical Response to Globalization Media Piracy and Intellectual Property in Southeast Asia Piracy “Robbery committed at sea” Sea piracy tripled‚ half in Indonesian waters Shipping lanes servicing 50‚000 commercial ships Seaborne piracy loss US$13-16 billion Media piracy loss $30-250 billion Pirates Rampant piracy secondnature Thesis: piracy as form of wanting to become middleclass in contemporary Philippine society Middle class precarious position
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their "free music" on the internet alone to sell the products that have always compensated them the most‚ concert tickets and merchandise. File sharing online has increased significantly in the last few years. According to research conducted by BigChampagne‚ a company that monitors file-sharing‚ "at any moment 8.3 million people were online sharing files in June of 2004 up from 6.8 million in June the year before" (Metz 112). The Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) reports that records
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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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Movie piracy has become one of the world’s worst crimes in history. It has cause the movie industry a severe amount of money. It has also cost people that work in the movie industry their jobs. Technology in today’s society has made it so easy to duplicate whatever comes to the theater. The criminals that chose to do such a crime can care less of the penalties that they may encounter. The loss of jobs has made it difficult for the industry to continue to create movies. Major movie companies have
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Dictionary defines piracy as‚ "an act of robbery on the high seas or an act resembling such robbery" (885). From this we can define software piracy as an act of robbery on the information superhighway. Many people do not see it as such. Even though the average person would never consider going into a convenience store and stealing a stick of gum‚ many have no qualms about stealing thousands of dollars worth of software. In a study done by the Canadian Alliance Against Software Theft‚ 43 percent of adult
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Problems Caused by Identity Theft By Luanne Kelchner‚ eHow Contributor * * * * Print this article Victims of identity theft suffer more problems than a loss of money. Identity theft is a widespread problem that involves the theft of someone ’s financial information and identification. The thieves then steal from existing accounts in the victim ’s name‚ open new accounts or both. The problems associated with identity theft go further than the financial loss that the
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“Identity theft and identity fraud are terms used to refer to all types of crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person’s personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception‚ typically for economic gain.” (The United States Department of Justce)In today’s world where people are very dependent on internet and technology‚ identity theft has become a major issue for both consumers and business. Internet became a convenient‚ easy‚ and quick solution to everything starting
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Identity theft is a serious problem that has been happening for a very long period of time. In America there are over 9 million victims of identity theft that takes place every year. Research shows Nine out of ten American homeowners have concerns about becoming victims of identity theft. This is the most rapid growing type of fraud in the country‚ yet virtually two-thirds are hesitant whether their insurance policy is able to protect them financially if this crime were to occur. A vast proportion
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PIRACY IN AUSTRALIA Professional Computing Practice - Assignment 1 Authors: Ornan Wei S3341875‚ Araunah Wei S3341874 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 4 2 ISSUES OF PIRACY 4 3 PIRACY SOLUTIONS 5 3.1 Stakeholders involved 5 3.2 Solution 1 6 3.3 Solution 2 6 3.4 Preferred solution 6 4 SURVEY 7 APPENDIX A: REFERENCES 8 APPENDIX B: KEY TERMS 9 1 INTRODUCTION As a first world nation‚ it is a surprised that Senator Brandis said that Australia is the worst offender of any
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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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