...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 creative works with greater and greater fidelity to the original”(Jost). While a lot of the content on the Internet is free to download, that does not mean it is legal. What is illegal downloading? Illegal downloading is downloading without paying or obtaining permission for files that people do not have the right to use from the Internet. Illegal downloading is one of the ways that many people use to enjoy others’ property. Therefore, those who knowingly download and steal intellectual property should be punished with prison time because they destroy the profit of artists and producers, reduce the motivation of artists to create new property, and hurt the reputation of the Internet as a legitimate source of advertising. First, people who illegally download need to be punished because they hurt the profit of creative people. The music industry is one in which illegal downloading has had terrible effects. New artists especially work very hard to write a song or lyrics, and they hope to sell their creation and build a music career...
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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 that you do not have the right to use from the...
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...To Share or not to Share Peter Todd Shawshank University To Share or not to Share Have you ever taped music off your favorite radio station? That's the old way you would do it if you can't afford the albums. Today people are not only downloading music off the internet but also pictures, movies, games, software and any other kind of computer files that could be beneficial. Each week there are more than one billion downloads of music files alone. Participation in file sharing has also grown. Over 60 million Americans above the age of twelve have downloaded music (Ipsos-Reid, 2002b). File sharing is heavily linked to youth. While a majority of Americans under 18 years old have downloaded and half of those are heavy users, only a fifth of those aged 35-44 have downloaded files (Edison Media Research, 2003). Among U.S. adults at least 18 years old, the number of downloaders has about doubled since 2000 (Pew Internet Project, 2000 and 2003). Because physical distance is largely irrelevant in file sharing, individuals from virtually every country in the world participate. When peers download, they don't all download from one place. Millions of peers around the world are connected and they download files off of each other's computer. Popular networks are Kazaa, WinMX, Limewire, Morpheus, Frostwire and many more. Downloading files is free, but many people are confused that it would be stealing. The RIAA (Record Industry Association of America) had announced that it is stealing...
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...Formulating a Feasible Business Strategy to Start the Business in the Home Entertainment Industry A business opportunity has inspired me to start my own business in the home entertainment industry. The business in the industry will be performed by globally selling DVD and CD products, which can be described as physical containers of entertainment elements from film, music and game studios. For acquiring information of the opportunities and possibilities of the business for me, who acts as an entrepreneur, relevant business strategy will be made as the following assignment. 1. Definition of the concept of business strategy. The concept of business strategy will be defined as the points below. 1) To define the concept of business strategy, initially, the definition of strategy will be given. Strategy is the determination of long term goals and course of action on achieving these goals. (Business Strategy 2004) As it has defined, it is a designation of plans for action to achieve a particular goal. Similarly, for a company, it is a particular business goal. 2) One of the most important elements in the business strategy is their objectives. However, before making the objectives, the mission should firstly be set. From this point, business mission is to provide information on the character of a company and what business a company is doing. When the setup of the mission is done, there will be an inspection of the objectives. There are three...
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...OuYouTube Case Study 1) Competitive forces like PC’s that have DVD writers and readers, portable video players, free video downloading and of course, the internet has challenged the movie industry. Problems that these forces have created are that more people will want to download movies illegally off the internet than purchase them when they come out on DVD or Blue Ray. Movie and television studios made it possible for movies to be sold online via download to combat the illegal downloading problem. 2) Disruptive technology has impacted YouTube by making it negotiate licensing agreements, copyright infringement and all this to prevent people from viewing illegal content. 3) The movie studios have dealt with YouTube by negotiating license agreements that would make movies available to be viewed legally. The goal of the response is to eliminate viewing of copyrighted content on YouTube. The movie studios can learn that they can sell content over the internet to make profit just like the music industry used iTunes to produce revenue. 4) Motion Picture companies should definitely use YouTube to promote their new films because YouTube is the most popular video sharing website in the world and millions of people are on YouTube daily. 5) I find that there are many videos, some made by the studio that the movie was filmed by and others made by random people that uploaded the video under “fair use”. Both ways created publicity for the movie and thus making the movie...
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...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. 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, 2012, para. 4). I was interested in this case because Tenenbaum was one of the first two people in the United States to have this type of case taken to the Supreme Court. At the same time this case was going on, I was also downloading and sharing music and movies as well until I learned of the illegal status of doing so. The fact that I was doing the same thing at the time...
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...I-Tunes may provide a glimpse at the future of movie rentals. I-Tunes offers both low cost and greater convenience as compared to online music stores such as CDNow.com or to retail chains. "Forrester Research expects that within just four years, online music will account for 33% of music industry sales." 2. RIVAL FIRMS: So who are the current competitors? How much will their current structures have to change in order to adapt to a pay-per-view or a digital download business model and how much will those changes cost? Traditional Retail Competitors: Blockbuster, Wal-Mart, Movie Gallery and others will need to re-focus their marketing in order to drive customers to their websites. There, customers can enjoy greater convenience while the firm benefits from lower operating costs when downloading becomes the dominant rental method. "The web (allows companies to provide) 24/7 access and support at a much lower cost than that of employing live service representatives." Unlike Netflix users, traditional rental customers are in the habit of visiting retail stores, not renting online. Traditional retailers must establish an online presence, (as Blockbuster.com has done with their online subscription service), so that an online relationship with their customers already exists when downloading becomes the norm. To use I-Tunes as an example, existing music retailers were not prepared to offer a similar...
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...Assignment 1 Task 1 In this assignment I have been asked to describe in report format the various platforms for video in interactive media such as Worldwide web, email attachments, DVD; CD ROM; Kiosks, presentations. Also I will discuss how video is used on all the platforms mentioned above. Worldwide web Worldwide web can be used for many different things such as short films, for example on websites such as YouTube and Facebook. Promotional material can also be used, for example on search engines it will base your previous searches to then see what products you may be interested in and market it towards you on some online shopping websites or just on Facebook or YouTube advertisements. Film trailers will we also on movie sites for trailers such as imdb.com which allow you to search and look for rating of movies which you may wish to watch in the future. User generated content is also uploaded to the world wide web on websites such as social media sites and also sites like YouTube where people record short videos from there mobile device and then...
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... School of Creative Enterprise. Digital Media: Report. 13.11.2009 What effect have Peer to Peer networks had on consumerism such as the selling of films and music? “In a P2P network, the "peers" are computer systems which are connected to each other via the Internet. Files can be shared directly between systems on the network without the need of a central server.” (http://www.techterms.com/definition/p2p) It is essential to understand the meaning of “Peer to peer” in order to study the subject in depth. This report aims to analyse and explore the effects of Peer to Peer networks in the music and film industry, and it’s effect on consumerism. In order to fully understand P2P networks, it is essential to study it’s historical and social context first. Peer to Peer networks started with the so called ‘Internet Boom’ in the late 1990’s. The first online file sharing services operating between 1999 and 2001 was Napster, created by Shawn Fanning. It was the first technology who allowed people to share their MP3 files with others. At the beginning only audio tracks were available for download and it took approximately 30 to 45 minutes for a song to download. Nowadays it takes about a few seconds for a song to download and from 10 to 20 minutes for a movie. However, Napster was soon shut down as it lead the music industry to accuse them of “massive copyright violations”. Moreover, in 10 years the number of users increased considerably from 58 million in 2001 to more than 70...
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...Fundamentals of Information Systems Security Lesson 1 Information Systems Security Fundamentals of Information Systems Security © 2015 Jones and Bartlett Learning, LLC, an Ascend Learning Company www.jblearning.com All rights reserved. Page 1 Learning Objective Explain the concepts of information systems security (ISS) as applied to an IT infrastructure. Fundamentals of Information Systems Security - Contact: hieuld2@fpt.edu.vn Page 2 Key Concepts Confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C-I-A) concepts Layered security solutions implemented for the seven domains of a typical IT infrastructure Common threats for each of the seven domains IT security policy framework Impact of data classification standard on the seven domains Fundamentals of Information Systems Security - Contact: hieuld2@fpt.edu.vn Page 3 DISCOVER: CONCEPTS Fundamentals of Information Systems Security - Contact: hieuld2@fpt.edu.vn Page 4 Introducing ISS ISS Information Systems Information Fundamentals of Information Systems Security - Contact: hieuld2@fpt.edu.vn Page 5 The C-I-A Triad Fundamentals of Information Systems Security - Contact: hieuld2@fpt.edu.vn Page 6 Confidentiality Personal Data and Information • Credit card account numbers and bank account numbers • Social security numbers and address information Intellectual Property • Copyrights, patents, and secret formulas • Source code, customer databases...
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...Senior Composition I Argumentative Paper Pirating Isn’t Pirating Sentenced to serve a year in Swedish prison and pay a fine of 3.5 million dollars. What would be your educated guess to the crime commited to earn this sentence? Would you be surprised if I told you it was for running servers which didn’t host any files more than it takes to supply a website with navigation capabilities? I’m not underselling this either, Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij of Sweden were handed down a very harsh sentence from Stockholm, Sweden’s district court in the 2008-2009 case against The Pirate Bay for hosting a website people were using to (technically) only share the links to copyrighted material. When you think of an internet pirate, do you imagine someone taking the livelihood away from a rich Hollywood bigshot, robbing a human of their ability to live and take care of themself? Chances are that isn’t the image that comes to mind to the average American, nor the average Earth citizen. Now, the statement that “piracy is a victimless crime” isn’t completely wrong or completely wrong from my view. I can understand the side that says that it isn’t a victimless crime, because the creators of software or media do rely on that money to make a living in some situations. I see the other side too though. The side that says that piracy is a victimless crime. A great deal of available software and media have quite a few steps between the end user and the actual creator...
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...Direct to Fan Model Direct-to-Fan is a business model used by independent musicians, independent music labels, music marketing professionals, promoters, and others in the music industry. Direct-to-Fan is also becoming a model used by the broad definition of artists, including comedians, visual artists, and other entertainers looking to build and leverage a fan community throughout their career. The Direct-to-Fan model bypasses the major record label model that historically controlled radio, venue, and distribution channels, and lets the artist (or the team that supports that musician) create interest in their music directly with their fans, identify those fans, market directly to and develop relationships with those fans, sell directly to and monetize those relationships, and use those relationships to expand their fan base. Foundation components of this model include music discovery sites, and Direct-to-Fan music sales, marketing, and business solutions. Direct-to-Fan models encourage engaging directly between the artist and their fans, keeping the fans engaged, knowing who they are (who, what, when, where, why), building the artist's brand, and developing the artist-to-fan relationship over time. Direct-to-fan tools Some tools supporting Direct-to-Fan include: Storefronts to sell direct-to-fan on Band Websites and on social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace, Widget tools to embed sales, gig or event calendar, profile info anywhere including blogs...
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...Hastings From: Riki Kotaka Subject: How do music companies address the issue the music sales has been declining? Introduction Music is essential for our lives, however it is difficult for those who get involved with music industry to make a profit. Music industry has been shrinking since 1999 when Napster, pioneering music file share service, was founded [1 McCormick]. In 1990’s when the music sales were at the peak, the total global music revenue was around $30 billion, but the one in 2012 was only $16.5 billion [2 Pfanner]. I did summer internship at Sony Music Entertainment in Tokyo for a month. I’ve participated in some meetings to consider marketing plans for musicians. One main reason of the sales declination is an illegal downloading. Although laws prohibit illegal downloading, there are still massive illegal downloading websites on the Internet. However, global music sales in 2012 increased for the first time since 1999, and the number of songs downloaded illegally was declined to 210 million in comparison to 1.2 billion in 2008. [3 Sherwin] It seems that music companies finally found some efficient ideas to overcome illegal downloaders. Do music companies actually increase their profits? And how did music companies start adjusting the situation? The purpose of the research paper is to figure out the main reasons why music sales finally increased, any differences to market music products and if the situation of music companies and musicians has improved or not...
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...(Customers and Markets) Fall 2014 / Professor Tao (Tony) Gao Question 1: I recommend CDT to introduce accessories for music, movies and video game fans as a new category of products. These accessories include posters, clothes, cups, and so on. These accessories related to a specific movie or famous star, for instance, a T-shirt with a theme of Star Wars. As CDT is a store for music lover and movie lover, this new category can attract these customers’ attention when they looking for their entertainment products. Based on the customer survey, 56% of customers are between 18 and 36 years old, these young customers more like to purchase the accessories for collecting. The accessories for music and video are a new trend that more and more famous singers and movie companies like to release some accessories about their music and movies to earn more money. It provides a new way for CDT to compete with these mass merchandise stores. These merchandise stores are only sell CDs and movies, they do not sell these accessories. In addition, these accessories are high profit products. If CDT introduces this new category, it will bring high profits to CDT. It is a good category for CDT’s long-term business. The digital downloading and piracy significantly affect the sales for CDT’s traditional business. However, the new category will not affected by digital downloading and piracy, so it may be a good way for CDT to focus on it. Question 2: 1. Introducing accessories as a new category...
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...Electronic Theft Act Law (NET Act) and implied protection to prevent copying of DVDs have decreased the cases of piracy. However, focusing to dispose unauthorized websites and copyright infringement will not tackle the issue. The movie industry should create new ventures that will attract consumers to find authorized provider of movies. To lessen piracy and avoid the unequal profit distribution, the industry should make a new business design underscoring admission to authorized online streaming sites in an inexpensive and timely manner. The first thing that hurts the economy is the use of unauthorized software and websites to upload and download different movies. This illegal site has taken the profitability of the industry especially in the field of movie production because of the free and illegal access they give to the consumers. It does not only bring pain to the economy, but it also carries liabilities that may be impose to the consumers. As what...
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