Online Piracy Online piracy has continued to grow in this digital age. You’ll find a large majority of homes equipped with a computer and access to the outside internet. This is for the most part harmless for the average user‚ but as technology continues to pave the way‚ a greater ease of access to content is available to anyone who chooses to pursue it. Among this available content is illegal distributions of music‚ movies‚ games‚ and applications‚ which normally could only be found at a local
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he music industry has typically borne the brunt of online piracy‚ because the smaller file sizes of songs make them easy to download and share. According to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI)‚ which represents the interests of the UK music industry‚ online copyright infringement cost the music industry over £200 million in lost revenue in 2009‚ and the cumulative total losses between 2001 and 2012 are estimated to be £1.2 billion (see BPI‚ File-sharing FAQs). For a number of years‚ peer-to-peer
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Bucher 02/05/2015 Piracy in the Middle Ages Piracy is the act of robbery or criminal violence on and around the high sea. The term can and is not limited to include any acts committed on land‚ in the air‚ in large bodies of water or on a shore. Piracy does not normally include the crimes committed against people traveling on the same vehicle as the possible criminal. The term‚ “Piracy” has been used throughout history as a reference to land-raids committed by non-state agents. Piracy or pirating is
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Stop Online Piracy Act Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information‚ a tool for delivering music and art‚ it’s great. But spamming ads and piracy is terrible. It’s stealing. Piracy is the thorny issue in the Philippines. This really shows how we‚ as consumers‚ see piracy in terms mainly of getting a bargain‚ and that most of us think it’s a victimless crime. The growing piracy business has made the Philippines one of the thirty-one countries that supposedly have a larger market
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Overtime‚ things got better for immigrants and they started to become accepted‚ first through the work they did to support the country as well as resources and the determination they gave. Now‚ immigrants can easily come into Canada and become Canadian citizens giving them rights and freedoms equal to everyone around them. With immigrants comes a change in society and culture. Many trends we have now originated from another country and were introduced into Canada only through immigration. Canada
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Introduction; Thesis statement: Canadian women had many duties during WW2 after the men had left for battle. - Women always had a "ladylike" image that they were expected to fit. -The involvement of Canadian women in WW2 was one of the most important primary steps towards Canadas current state of gender equality‚ because those women took on a untraditonal military role that back then you would NEVER expect a women to take on‚ challenged social stereotypes and refused to return to traditional
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Topic Models‚” Communications of the ACM (55:4)‚ pp Bloomberg Businessweek. 2011. “The Current State of Business Analytics: Where Do We Go from Here?‚” Bloomberg Business- Borgatti‚ S. P.‚ Everett‚ M. G.‚ and Freeman‚ L. C. 2002. UCInet for Windows: Software for Social Network Analysis‚ Harvard‚ Brantingham‚ P. L. 2011. “Computational Criminology‚” Keynote Address to the European Intelligence and Security Informatics Brin‚ S.‚and Page‚ L. 1998. “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
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The Canadian National Flag The Canadian Flag‚ sometimes referred to as the "Maple Leaf"‚ is a true symbol of Canada and shows how we love our land by having a maple leaf on the flag. The colours of the flag are the official national colours of Canada‚ red and white. King George V appointed them in 1921. The Maple Leaf wasn’t the only flag Canada had. Prior to the Maple Leaf there was the St. George’s cross. The St. Georges Cross was an English Flag of the 15th century. It was flown over Canada
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Chapter 10 Information Systems Development and Project Management Case Study: Dutch Railways System The railways system of The Netherlands‚ the Dutch railways‚ is one of the most heavily trafficked systems in the world. It manages 1.2 million passengers a day on 4‚800 scheduled trains from 371 stations around the country. Headquartered in Utrecht‚ the system employs 25‚000 persons‚ who manage 28‚000 coaches. The Dutch railways needed a new information system that would manage the information displays
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This Isn’t Piracy in International Waters Stealing. There is more to it than just the grab-something-off-the-shelf-and-go approach. Online piracy is defined as “the unauthorized reproduction or use of a copyrighted book‚ recording‚ television program‚ patented invention‚ trademarked product‚ etc” (“Piracy”). It really started to become a problem in 1999 with the creation of Napster. Napster was the first peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing program that enabled users to download and share music for
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