West Coast Forum Research Work Group Sustainable Consumption & the Sharing Economy Summary of Research Findings and Gap Analysis Topic: How state and local governments are promoting sustainable consumption and engagement in the sharing economy RESEARCH QUESTION(S) • What is the state of knowledge about sustainable consumption? How is this defined or framed? What are the emerging trends? What potential roles can municipal and state governments play? • What barriers
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The cost of a treat is 50 pennies. This is found by isolating the $20 plan by the 40 bars he can acquire every month. $.50 = $20/40. The cost of a music download is $1. This is found by isolating the $20 plan by the 20 downloads he can acquire every month. $1 = $20/20. The opportunity expense of 1 music download is the quantity of treats offered up to get it. That number is 2. The buy of 1 more music download at $1 every download obliges the present of 2 pieces of candy at 50 pennies each. The
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While in the action of committing piracy, or breaking the law, many people always ask, "Does piracy really make a difference to the music or movie industry?" In most cases people would come to the conclusion that it does little to no difference but in all reality, it makes quite a large divot in the industries. According to Siwek, American workers suffer from the millions that download music illegally. Around 71,000 jobs and over two billion dollars in wages have been lost due to piracy in the
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act as a server for the other computers. This allows shared access to files and peripherals without the need for an central server.The first thought of development of P2P(Peer to Peer) was established in 1969. It was the first RFC(Request for Comments). However, the first implementation of a P2P network was Usenet. This implementation was in the year,1979. The next fifthteen plus years, which followed the first implementation of P2P were uneventful. This would continue until the late 1990’s, when a
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ABSTRACT……………………………………………………………………………………..ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT………………………………………………………………….iii LIST OF TABLES & FIGURES…………………………………………………………iv 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Types of Peer to Peer………………………………………………………………..…...........2 1.1.1 Unstructured P2P…………………………………………………………………………2 1.1.2 Centralized P2P…………………………………………………………………………….3 1.2 Applications………………………………………………………………………..……………….....3 1.3 Advantages…………………..……………………………………………...............................3 1.4 Objective …………………………………………………………………………………………..…....4 1.5
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small fee. The fees for subscription vary on what kind of service the consumer wants and for how long. 3. Is the record industry justified in attempting to shut down P2P file-sharing sites that make it possible to download copyrighted media? Why or why not? Record industries are justified in wanting to stop P2P file-sharing websites. There is millions of money spent by record companies to produce albums and the work put into creating music and movies for the public. So it would be justifiable
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characterize these types. Table 1.3 lists the five major types of e-commerce discussed in this book.1 For the most part, we distinguish different types of e-commerce by the nature of the market relationship—who is selling to whom. The exceptions are P2P and m-commerce, which are technology-based distinctions. Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-commerce The most commonly discussed type of e-commerce is Business-to-Consumer (B2C) e-commerce, in which online businesses attempt to reach individual consumers
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Find examples of each of the categories of e-commerce: B2B, B2C, P2P, and C2B. For each of the examples found, describe the levels of interactivity and customization on the Web site. From a consumer standpoint, what do you like and dislike about each of the Web sites? How do you propose that each of the Web sites could be improved? B2B E-Commerce Nistevo (www.nistevo.com) is a B2B e-commerce site serving vertical markets. Vertical markets serve an industry specific sector. Nistevo is a collaborative
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small fee. The fees for subscription vary on what kind of service the consumer wants and for how long. 3. Is the record industry justified in attempting to shut down P2P file-sharing sites that make it possible to download copyrighted media? Why or why not? Record industries are justified in wanting to stop P2P file-sharing websites. There is millions of money spent by record companies to produce albums and the work put into creating music and movies for the public. So it would be justifiable
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures exhibit attractive properties for a wide range of real world systems. As a result they are increasingly being applied in the design of applications ranging from highcapacity file sharing and global scale distributed computing to business team-ware. The objective of this paper is to outline a number of areas in which Agent techniques for the management of social problems such as decision making or fair trading amongst autonomous agents could be used to help structure P2P actions
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