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)
Words: 1741 - Pages: 7
e-sonic. This company is responsible for creating an online music store to compete with the established players in the industry and includes key executives from Sonic Records. Founded after the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) initiated several hundred lawsuits against individuals and pirate file-sharing websites, e-sonic has the potential to grow and expand into its goal of becoming the world’s leading market for online music. Despite fierce competition from Apple’s iTunes, Rhapsody
Words: 3098 - Pages: 13
foremost, they are copyright challenges, especially for music. Ethically copying some songs or downloading movies and music without any permission or consent is consider stealing, because it decreases the revenues for artist, actor or movie makers. Education has been affected because artist, movie makers or actors are catching up on how to put a stop or piracy and online theft, by putting IP restrictions which help cut down illegal downloading , copying . The more restrictions are in place it can
Words: 296 - Pages: 2
rights to use produce and distribute creative work to the creator or author. There are four types intellectual property which are copyrights, patents, trademark and trade secrets. Copyrights deal with forms of creativity in communication like novels, music, songs and movies. Patents protect new invention and cannot be exploited without the authorization of the patent owner. Trademarks are designed to individualize goods to distinguish the source like a symbol, logo and a slogan. Before you can combat
Words: 362 - Pages: 2
Some of the challenges the entertainment industry faces with internet sharing is loss of money. More people have the ability to download music, movies, and other products illegally because of “sharing” web-sites such as limewire, frostwire, and bear share. The entertainment industry does not have a way to track these illegal downloads and numerous people know that the chances of being prosecuted are extremely small. Some people believe that what they download has little effect of the entertainment
Words: 252 - Pages: 2
belongings. I’ve never seen anyone doing so. We would never steal from the man, who trusts the world enough to put it out for anyone to see, yet some steal from businesses, steal ideas from each other, and often take what they don’t deserve. People steal music online, illegally download movies, etc. However, I think of the man with his lonely bag, and how if one were to take say a tube of toothpaste from him, it would leave a resounding effect on his life, besides the initial hurt of having something taken
Words: 1586 - Pages: 7
Innovative Models for Doing Business in the Music Industry Table of Contents 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
Words: 7711 - Pages: 31
to access before its release. It may not be ethical and downloaders might be sued for copyright infringement, but there are no laws that criminalise Australians downloading and watching content for their own individual use. "It's not illegal," Electronic Frontiers Alliance executive officer Jon Lawrence told Fairfax Media. "Downloading something like Game of Thrones without paying for it is a breach of copyright but if you're not doing it on a commercial scale, it's simply a civil issue and it's
Words: 1697 - Pages: 7
Will the Web Kill Colleges? In this paper I will examine the article written by Zephyr Teachout entitled “Will the Web Kill Colleges”. The key point of Teachout’s argument is whether or not the Web will kill Colleges. According to the author Zephyr, “undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering” (Chaffee, p.91, para 2). Zephyr states that colleges will be torn apart by the Internets new ways of sharing information. Classes are slowly changing from an in class setting to
Words: 1646 - Pages: 7
Digital piracy is making up profit from illegal copying and reselling music, videos, software videogames and other digital media which requires genuine. In 2005, loses of legal media and software industry from digital piracy was $200 billion (DSTI/IND (2007). Also, Oberholzer-Gee (2010) indicates that 60% of World Wide Web broadband busy by consumers’ video, game and music sharing. To avoid this issue intellectual proprietors use various methods. In this paper is shown methods to dodge problem of
Words: 1577 - Pages: 7
