made wide-scale trading of music possible in the form of MP3 files available over the internet for free. Users can simply upload the files to these sharing sites and millions of others at any given time have the ability to download it from them. The Recording Industry Association of America, however, doesn’t share the enthusiasm about these file sharing practices. To them, it is stealing from the record company and from the artist themselves. Consumers don’t tend to see it that way. The issue that
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1 Introduction 1 2 Reasons for Changes in Consumer Thinking 2 2.1 New Technology Changes the Way Consumers Experience Media 3 2.2 Development of P2P File Sharing 3 2.2.1 Generation 1: Napster 3 2.2.2 Generation 2: The Pirate Bay 4 3 Company Attitudes Towards Changing Business Climate 5 3.1 The Industry Reaction on File Sharing 5 3.2 Technologial Countermeasures 6 3.3 Taking Chances with the New Climate 7 4 Analysis of Different Business Models and Market Conditions 9 4.1 A New
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Zoe Tse Internet and Music “Just gonna stand there, and watch me burn, but that's alright because I like the way it hurts. Just gonna stand there and hear me cry, but that's alright because I love the way you lie.” Have you ever heard this song, Love The Way You Lie? This song was a big hit these few months. Where do you hear this song from? Probably in the mall, by buying a CD, or from internet, people can listen to this song. If people get this song from the internet, they only have to make
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upon copyright laws. The legal battle came to an end in September 2001, and Napster was changed forever; with artists having final say over which songs could be shared on the platform. Napster wasn’t the end of the peer to peer networking of sharing music between users on the internet. There was Kazza thatsers could use. This came at a cost because, it was load with adware, spyware, and let’s not forget about the illegal downloading of something you don’t own. Even if you installed Kazza the
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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 Industry Association Of America filing a lawsuit because of copyright infringement and suppressed record sales, this did not stop the development of more sophisticated file sharing softwares able to manipulate copyright laws around the world. Downloading films became possible due to increased storage
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Associate Justices and is the highest judicial body in the United States. In the 2009 case of the Supreme Court vs. Joel Tenenbaum, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued former Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum for file sharing 30 songs he illegally downloaded from the Internet. According to Bloomberg (2012): The court, without comment, refused to hear Tenenbaums challenge to a law that let the recording industry collect thousands of dollars from individuals for such downloading
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converts intangible capitals into profit. This difference is the main reason why, both philosophical and ethical arguments that have been made around copyright for over a century. In 1920’s it was the radio then VCR and CD and now peer-to-peer file sharing networks.
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COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Study Case Egon Zehnder International 1. What is the core business of Egon Zehnder ? The company was incorporated in 1976 and is based in New York, New York. Egon Zehnder International (named EZI below), Inc. is a subsidiary of Egon Zehnder International (Schweiz) AG. Egon Zehnder operates through some 390 consultants across more than 60 offices in nearly 40 countries. Regarding its revenues ($218 million), even if Egon Zehnder is only the fourth
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Effective Online Learning Everyone has a different learning style, which makes learning online very different from the traditional brick and mortar environment. A brick and mortar environment is a controlled environment in which an instructor is available to answer any of the questions that their students may have, whereas online the student must email their instructor and wait for their response. There also is less peer to peer interaction in an online course to try and solve the problem
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3) Electronic retailing is primarily found in B2B markets. 4) E-tail success requires either quality merchandise, excellent prices, or excellent service. 5) Since Napster encouraged peer-to-peer file sharing and did not actually publish music at its site, the courts ruled that Napster's operations were exempt from traditional copyright laws. 6) A retailer is an intermediary that operates between manufacturers and consumers. .
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