...SOPA Chill Out In a recent uproar, popular websites all over, such as Google and Facebook, participated in a blackout protest against the SOPA and PIPA Acts, which were in debate with the senate. The PIPA Act is designed to stop piracy, “with particular emphasis on illegal copies of films and other forms of media hosted on foreign servers” (BBC sopa and pipa 2012). The PIPA act grants the United States government, along with other right holders, the permission to request a court order against any website “enabling or facilitating" piracy. This court order potentially could have a whole website shut down “[making] them "disappear" from the internet” (BBC:sopa and pipa 2012). In addition, the SOPA Act would require all search-engines to remove infringing websites from their search results (BBC: sopa and pipa 2012). Although both Acts could prevent piracy rates from increasing, they also threaten to change the structure of the internet and potentially violate the constitutional right: Freedom of Speech. Background: Both the SOPA and PIPA Act are closely related to the censorship acts implanted in Iran and China, and more recently Spain (BBC: Sopa and Pipa 2012). In China, “the government has put a lot of resources into controlling and censoring the internet content available to its citizens.” Everything from online games to politically sensitive sites are censored and decided whether it should be made available to the public (S. Chen 2011). In China, western social networks...
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...Ethics in Information Technology Dustin Hughson Kaplan University Introduction Ethical theories date back to the times of Socrates and Aristotle, the problem with ethical and moral theories is that information technology was not even a possibility when first developed. Lines can be crossed and personal ambiguity can help people act bolder then he/she may normally want too. Ethical theories are being used more and more to help the professional and computing world handle the rapid change while government and legislation try to catch up. Law and guidelines have been made, but in the haste to create them many are poorly designed and implemented, hurting people that have seemed to do nothing wrong. Information technology is a global profession and increases the difficulty when dealing with different scenarios. Presented with the same scenario an IT professional in Japan may handle it completely different than another professional in the USA. Setting standards and ideals for all computing professionals is key to the continuing growth of information technology. Legal and Ethical Issues The computing professional faces legal and ethical issues in information technology every day. Many of the biggest issues that IT professionals face include the ever growing concern with piracy and ownership of information. Current laws and regulations allow software and intellectual property to be coved by both copyrights and patents. However the bigger concern is how software...
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...2012 SOPA/PIPA “Stop Online Piracy Act”/“Protect Intellectual Property Act” Recently, there has been much debate regarding the Stop Online Piracy and Protect Intellectual Property acts. Both of these acts involve online copyright infringement of intellectual property. These acts are basically attempting to put in place regulations for the government to control the content of what is being “shared” over the internet. The first act that was written was the “Protect Intellectual Property Act,” (“PIPA”) which was introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy on May 12, 2011. This proposed act was to limit access to various websites operating outside of the United States which were/are engaging in copyright and intellectual property infringement. Basically, what is covered in this proposed act is the illegal infringement of copy written materials through various channels, including distribution via the internet. This act is proposing that internet service providers have a duty to protect copy written materials by making such internet sites unavailable to the average user by not posting links to questionable sites. In addition, search engines, under this act, would be required to disable access to any internet sites engaging in questionable activities and not provide a hypertext to these internet sites. The second act, (often referred to as the “Sister Act” of “PIPA”), was introduced by Republican House Member Lamar Smith on October 26, 2011, almost six months after “PIPA”. “SOPA”’s...
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...billion dollars. There is belief that in the future all physical formats of music will be a thing of the past and everything will be found digitally. The reason for this belief is that downloads of single digital tracks (which Apple iTunes capitalized on) rose to 11 percent in volume and digital albums rose to 24 percent. There is also discussion of what subscription music services such as Rhapsody, Spotify and Deezer have done to the music industry and its revenue. With these subscription music services there has been a 64 percent increase of subscribers since 2010 and a $13.4 million dollar increase. Recently the US has proposed two laws that could put an end to peer to peer sharing, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). Because of these two laws the shutdown of the file sharing website Megaupload occurred which allegedly cost the entertainment industry hundreds of millions of dollars in sales all due to illegal downloading of music and movies. Although it may be impossible to actually find each website that allows file sharing, some music companies are hoping that other websites, especially...
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...Progress Report 2: The Challenges in the Publishing Industry A. We have chosen to cover the issue of the challenges in the publishing industry. First we will examine what is copyright law and how it encourages the creation of published works while limiting the accessibility to those works. In fact, copyright laws protect artists from having their works stolen or copied and sold for lower costs, and therefore guarantee them certain revenue. The monetary incentive increases the creation of music, movies and literature. However, those same laws limit the accessibility to these works. People who don’t have means to pay for entertainment and cultural works are deprived from it. In the field of education, author copyrights may sometimes get in the way of the learning process. It comes back to the question: should access to cultural works be free for all to access or should it be a consumer good? B. We want to interview a range of different people with different views about the subject. We will ask questions to one university professor and one Cegep literature teacher, to one young musician, to four university students, to four people from 25 to 40 years old and to four people from 40 years old and up. The questions we will ask them: 1. Describe what you think Copyright Law is? 2. Do you think it is normal to pay for a) music, b) movies and c) literature works? Why do you think so? 3. Do you think artists should get paid for what they actually do (create cultural works) without...
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...Requirements Your principal research requirement this quarter, as described in the syllabus, is a research paper worth 75 points toward your course grade. This paper has two deliverables and two due dates. The first deliverable, due on Feb. 9th, is a thesis statement, outline and annotated bibliography is worth 25 points. All of these concepts are described in detail below. The second deliverable, due on March 18th, is your final paper and worth 50 points. The topic of your paper is any social issues in IT topic of your choice with these constraints: 1. You must have a thesis (an argument or position on an important topic of the day that is open to debate or dispute). This can take several forms depending upon your topic: It might be that you take a position on a topic that is hotly debated (e.g. are first person shooter computer games good or bad for pre- teens to be playing?) Or it might mean that you look at a technology development and posit a position using one of Postman’s five dimensions (e.g. Who are the winners and losers when we equip knowledge workers with company provided mobile devices? Or: what are the unanticipated systemic impacts of equipping knowledge workers with company provided mobile devices? Or: What are the underlying big ideas behind a society of workers enabled to carry mobile devices so that they have access to the Internet from everywhere most all the time? Note that you wouldn’t try to address all three of these questions in one paper; probably...
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...a bit a couple a few a little adj, pron a lot (of) (tb lots (of)) a, an art indet a.m. (USA tb A.M.) abrev abandon v abandoned adj ability n able adj about adv, prep un poco un par unos cuantos algo / un poco mucho un/a Ante meridiam abandonar abandonado habilidad poder hacer algo affect v más o menos, hacia, por aquí / affection n prep: sobre algo above prep, adv por encima, más arriba / adv: afford v arriba afraid adj abroad adv en el extranjero after adv, prep, absence n ausencia conj absent adj ausente afternoon n absolute adj absoluto afterwards (USA absolutely adv absolutamente tb afterward) adv absorb v absorber again adv abuse n, v abusar, abuso against prep academic adj académico age n accent n acento aged adj accept v aceptar agency n acceptable adj aceptable agent n access n acceso aggressive adj accident n accidente ago adv accidental adj accidental agree v accidentally adv accidentalmente accommodation alojamiento, espacio, plazas agreement n ahead adv n accompany v acompañar aid n, v according to según algo aim n, v prep account n, v cuenta, relato / considerar air n aircraft n accurate adj preciso airport n accurately adv con precisión alarm n, v accuse v acusar a alguien alarmed adj achieve v lograr alarming adj achievement n logro alcohol n acid n acido alcoholic adj, n acknowledge v reconocer/agradecer/enterarse alive adj all adj, pron, acquire v adquirir adv across adv, a través de / all right adj, prep adv, interj act n, v acto, ley / actuar allied adj...
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...lay_man Says @Cricaddict- By this point you mean that average age of population is less than 22 years or there is some typo mistake? Sorry to barge in but i could not understand this line Yes avg age of population, for yemen - 17.9, syria - 21.5, egypt - 22 or 23 yrs.. in general a very young population and umemployed, so frustration and anger.. thats why the uproar.. @layman updated.. S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research PGDM Finance Class of 2014 | CAT'11 - 99.04%le QuoteReply. Like . Share 3 cricaddict Reply #22 03:44 PM, 10 Mar '12 Limits of Foreign Direct Investment in various sectors in India :: Non-Banking Financial Com-panies (NBFC) : 100% Petroleum Refining (Private Sector) : 100% Petroleum Product Marketing : 100% Oil Exploration : 100% Petroleum Product Pipelines : 100% Housing and Real Estate : 100% Power : 100% Drugs & Pharmaceuticals : 100% Road, Highways, Ports and harbours : 100% Hotel & Tourism : 100% Electricity : 100% Pharmaceuticals : 100% Transportation infrastructure : 100% Tourism : 100% Mass transit : 100% Pollution control : 100% Mining (Mining of gold and silver and minerals other than diamonds and precious stones) : 100% Advertising : 100% Films : 100% Mass Rapid Transport Systems : 100% Pollution Control & Management : 100% Special Economic Zones : 100% Air Transport Services (Domestic Airlines) : 100% for NRIs 49% for Others Single Brand...
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...JOHN KATZENBACH EL PSICOANALISTA Traducción de Laura Paredes John Katzenbach El psicoanalista Para mis compañeros de pesca: Ann, Meter, Phil y Leslie. 2 John Katzenbach El psicoanalista PRIMERA PARTE UNA CARTA AMENAZADORA 1 El año en que esperaba morir se pasó la mayor parte de su quincuagésimo tercer cumpleaños como la mayoría de los demás días, oyendo a la gente quejarse de su madre. Madres desconsideradas, madres crueles, madres sexualmente provocativas. Madres fallecidas que seguían vivas en la mente de sus hijos. Madres vivas a las que sus hijos querían matar. El señor Bishop, en particular, junto con la señorita Levy y el realmente desafortunado Roger Zimmerman, que compartía su piso del Upper West Side y al parecer su vida cotidiana y sus vívidos sueños con una mujer de mal genio, manipuladora e hipocondríaca que parecía empeñada en arruinar hasta el menor intento de independizarse de su hijo, dedicaron sus sesiones a echar pestes contra las mujeres que los habían traído al mundo. Escuchó en silencio terribles impulsos de odio asesino, para agregar sólo de vez en cuando algún breve comentario benévolo, evitando interrumpir la cólera que fluía a borbotones del diván. Ojalá alguno de sus pacientes inspirara hondo, se olvidara por un instante de la furia que sentía y comprendiera lo que en realidad era furia hacia sí mismo. Sabía por experiencia y formación que, con el tiempo, tras años de hablar con amargura en el ambiente peculiarmente distante...
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