ATENEO DE DAVAO UNIVERSITY JACINTO STREET, DAVAO CITY ATENEO DE DAVAO UNIVERSITY JACINTO STREET, DAVAO CITY ILLEGAL DOWNLOADING: WHERE THE SOCIETY STANDS AN ARGUMENTATIVE RESEARCH PAPER SUBMITTED BY: DAYLE TULANG EZEKIEL BITER SUBMITTED TO: VIVIEN GRACE AGBON-JUHAHIB, Ph.D. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The researchers would want to thank everyone who has contributed in making this argumentative research paper possible. Firstly, to our Almighty Father, who has given us support in things
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Illegally Downloading Music The concept of downloading music has been around since the late 1990s, around the time when we started seeing networking sites appear on the internet. These sites allowed users to post and share music and software files with other users, usually at no cost. Most artists rely on their music careers for sole financial support. With the increase of illegal music downloading, artists lose out on income, it prevents future artists from wanting to pursue a career in the music business
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Sandra Richardson 090713457 Illegal digital downloads and piracy: What effect is this having on the entertainment industry and is there a solution to the problem? Background. The entertainment industry felt their first blow in 1999 when a student developed Napster, a software program allowing millions of users to illegally download and share music files; sparking the beginning of the hundreds of entertainment sharing websites around the world today. Although shut down due to the Recording
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Illegal Downloading of Copyrighted Material Jacob McGuire DeVry University 04/16/2015 Professor: Arthur Basler Illegal Downloading of Copyrighted Material I want to paint you a picture. The picture has two sides. One side is a group of copyright owners that live in a system and a mindset that has not been updated in over 100 years. This group has not adapted to the changing times. On the other side of this picture you have individual people that what to experience what artist of music, movie
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such as games, music, movies, TV shows and software. It does not matter whether you upload the content to share with others without permission or whether you download it for free or for a bargain price. It is breaking the law when anyone involved in this type of operation. Download activity is not an easy thing to handle because it can be done in the bedroom. Downloading does not mean that it is legal while much of the content on the internet is free to download. Illegal downloading is obtaining files
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player, no other mp3 player has ever been as big of a hit. Sony and a few other companies had come up with digital music players a few years prior, but their versions were more expensive and could not hold nearly the amount of songs as the IPod could. The IPod was the first mp3 player to really succeed because people loved the idea. Not only was the IPod a convenient way to store music, It was a social and fashion statement. The IPod changed everything about society. Think about how technology, fashion
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Nhu Pham Thomas Comp I 24 April 2014 Illegal Downloading Have you ever enjoyed any famous movies for free or have you ever listened to any songs that singers have not introduced yet? A large percentage of people who use the internet have downloaded music or movies. Now, that the internet is more and more popular, people copy created works more easily. According to “Copyright and The Internet”, Kenneth Jost mentions that, “Each technological breakthrough made it less and less expensive to copy
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Name Course Tutor Date How has the music industry been affected by the internet and digital downloading? As the world progresses, internet power is handed over to people and the digital music downloads and sharing of files has become so common that the business in the music industry has started deteriorating and they are losing money really fast. This project came into my concern since the available number of musicians and their music genres on the internet is very high. A few megabytes and the song
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Free downloading: the real culprit Stéphane V. English Research Paper December 2012 ------------------------------------------------- Contents Introduction 2 I) Surprisingly enough, Internet users should not be punished 3 II) The real culprits are illegal websites and software 5 III) Solutions to illegal download 6 Works cited 8 Is it right to punish people who illegally download films and music? ------------------------------------------------- Introduction S
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individuals for such downloading. The jury was told to impose damages, set by US copyright law, of between $750 and $150,000 per violation. Jurors set a rate of $22,500 for each of 30 songs he downloaded. (para. 2) A jury subsequently ordered Tenenbaum to pay $675,000 in fines directly associated with each of the 30 illegally downloaded and shared songs. "I find it hard to believe that the legal system would uphold a six-figure sum against someone just for downloading music," Tenenbaum says (Brown
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