accurate in describing what Napster was doing. The court then found in the case of Napster, that their “failure to police the system’s premises, combined with a showing that Napster financially benefits from the continuing availability of infringing files on its system, leads to the imposition of vicarious liability.” (Napster, 2001, p. 53) These findings lead to the court ruling against
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china is obviously in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act * Violation of the Computer Software Copyright Act * Source of infringement is traceable instead of hundreds of isolated events (peer to peer sharing) | * Has to contact the U.S. department of Commerce and file a claim/report * Might be difficult to work with the Peoples Republic of China’s Trade Ministry because of the distance. | Significant amounts of revenue lost | * Potential to make up a portion of the revenue
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Time: 0:40 Words: 850 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Music Distribution over the Internet Throughout the ages, people have shared the love of making and listening to music. Music has the ability to enhance our emotions and add interest to our lives, so it is little wonder that we are willing to pay to listen to our favourite songs and that the music industry is one of the largest entertainment industries. In contrast, the Internet is a developing tool and resource we have only been
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Digital Rights Management (DRM) Digital Rights Management, by definition, controls the purchase and distribution of material accessed on the Internet. The material may be in the form of text, images, videos, or software that is downloaded online; often there is a payment required by the user, in turn the provider compensates the creator for rights to dispense the material. This endless availability to material is made possible with modern technology and DRM protects the material from electronic
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Running Head: IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON MUSIC INDUSTRY The Cultural and Economic Impact of Technology on Music Industry [Name of Author] [Name of the Institution] Abstract Technology has played a pivotal role in evolving every industry at global scale, music industry is also influenced by technology. The impact of technology on the music industry has a mix reaction from the cultural and the economic domain. In this paper I will critically analyze the research on impact of technology
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to gain access to the network of Richman Investments and also binds the said user to follow and abide accordingly to the agreements set forth for network access provided below. Policy guidelines The use of peer-to-peer file sharing or externally reachable file transfer protocol (FTP) servers is strictly forbidden. Downloading executable programs or software from any websites, even known sites, will not be tolerated. The user will not redistribute licensed or copyrighted material without
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File sharing technology is the process of sharing or distributing the digitally stored information over internet such as software, computer programs, multimedia, electronic books through different technologies. Most common way of sharing technologies are peer-peer sharing, bit torrents, file hosting services. Now-a-days, it has become very easy to download pirated software, multimedia using pirate bay, bit torrents, file hosting websites. In 1999, Napster was the first centralized unstructured
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As internet usage has expanded and there is now a lot more space to download and share files, pirates have been using this to their advantage. In January 2011, Envisional was commissioned by NBC Universal to analyse the amount of internet usage dedicated to copyright infringement, particularly in the area of film. One of the areas they looked at was the content on BitTorrent, which is the most used file sharing protocol worldwide. It was shown that 35.2% of what they found on BitTorrent
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File Sharing and the Revenue of the Creative Industries Introduction File sharing hosts, who provide online storage to share various files ripped from media like recorded music, films, and books, have been considered as a type of internet piracy that threatens the creative industries, including films, music, software, and books. (Van Eijk, 2011) However, after the shutdown of Megaupload, one of the most popular file hosting site, a series of ripple effect happened, causing several other file sharing
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their own way of thinking or own opinion. There are many people who have different feelings about issues. Content sharing, File sharing, or Piracy; whatever you want to call this issue. I have studied many ways and resources in this topic. I have looked at many articles on this issue. There is much to be discussed on the topic and things can get pretty heated about it. My view on file sharing is that we should be allowed to do what we want with the information we provide. I feel very strongly about this
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