Limewire: The Rise and Fall of File Sharing When I was in middle school, the biggest way to get music for free was a website named Limewire. Nothing was more exciting than to be able to hear a song on the radio then go home and download it to our desktops. Also cool, was the fact that if one of us didn’t have a song, our friend could simply “burn” it onto a c.d. for us. That was the only way we knew how to get music, aside from going out and buying the whole album. Apple’s iTunes was just starting
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There are many reasons why practices involving breaches of copyright can be defended on ethical grounds. Educators and journalists can contribute greatly to citizen’s understandings of their immediate and global surroundings by using copyrighted materials in their work. Additionally, entertaining cultural products such as television shows also help us understand aspects of life, and the simultaneous viewing of a text through online and illegal means can create a sense of community between nation
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Intellectual Property 12/05/12 Music Piracy in the US Counterfeit, piracy, bootleg, or stealing, these are some of the many terms associated with the unauthorized dissemination and distribution of copyrighted music. For over five decades, the music industry in the United States has had to grapple with the effects of such activity. The Copyright Act of 1909 was the first granting exclusive rights to copyrighted music. The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic
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Anti-Federalists vs. the Federalists - what did we gain from their discourse? Federalists are people who wanted their national government become stronger. They supported the ratification of the Constitution to help conduct the debt and tensions following the American Revolution. They felt that many individual and monetary policies make economic struggles and national weakness. They prefer to have central banking central financial policies. Contract to Federalists, anti- Federalists who oppose
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Critical Perspective Paper 2 What is Art? ¬ Dutton believes art philosophy should change their approach by treating art as a field of activities, objects, and experiences that appears naturally in human life. It depends on identified patterns of intrinsic human behavior that is cross-culturally constant. Staniszewski explains that art not just made for thematic representation or an instrument for that moment in time. Modern art in today’s world encompasses psychological, social
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Article Review Oracle vs. Google Steven Phillips University of Phoenix LAW/421 Mark Rorem June 16, 2014 Article Review: Oracle vs. Google ARTICLE SYNOPSIS Oracle vs. Google is an infringement suit against Google for copyright infringement of Oracle’s Java platform. Due to a convoluted decision by the jury Google may escape the $1 billion suite Oracle is seeking for Google using Java API code. The Jury found that Google did “infringe on the structure of Oracle’s Java copyrights but not
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Name: Tutor: Course: Date: Should people who download music and movies illegally be punished? The number of illegal movie and music downloads has steeply risen over the past decade. Music and movie producers invest immense time and resources in production hoping to not only recoup their investment but also earn profits. Neither music nor movies are spontaneously created. It is only logical that users pay for them and not exploit the producers through free illegal downloads. As a result, people
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Intellectuals are looked down upon and seen as insignificant in today’s society and one might wonder why that is. Grant Penrod explores this claim in his article Anti – Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids. In his article, he explains that there is a problem with degrading the smart kids and it needs to stop. Throughout his article, his argument is convincing due to his use of ethos, logos, and pathos. He introduces the topic by describing a personal experience of his from when he attended
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Federalist and Anti-Federalist controversy. The Federalist and Anti-Federalist controversy explores the views of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists. The Federalists supported the Constitution, and they wanted the Constitution to become law or ratified. Moreover, the Federalists wanted and believed in a strong, central government. The Federalists consisted of Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. On the other side, there were opponents of the Constitution (the Anti-Federalists). The Anti-Federalists
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My brother more the die-hard CD collector, he would make a collage of the album artwork on his wall displaying his collection. In my room was a shelf devoted to CD's or if you checked my iTunes there were 1,000+ songs bought form the iTunes store; though that was short lived. LimeWire and FrostWire were the two most popular forms for pirating music around me, but I had yet to even scratch the surface. The real father for pirating was introduced to me in my high-school days was called Pirate Bay.
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