Alternative & Transnational Media The Alliance for Cultural Diversity – UNESCO – works to ‘prevent and fight against an ever-increasing level of piracy‚ in part brought about by recent developments in the use of new technologies and their consequences on cultural product sales. Piracy is detrimental to authors because it deprives them of the opportunity to profit financially from their work. The publishing‚ music‚ audiovisual and software industries are the most severely affected sectors’. Critically
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Napster Controversy Executive Summary This case takes a look at the Napster company which was launched in 1999 by freshman Shawn Fanning. Napster was later shut down in 2001 due to violations of copyright laws. The Napster;s offerings was later condemned By RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America)‚ a trade group representing the world’s biggest record labels‚ Universal music‚ Sony Music‚ Warner Music‚ EMI group and Bertelsmann AG.This case study gives a detailed analysis of the creation
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around the world for millions of listeners. i. He invented the phonograph in 1877 which was one of the first ways of distributing sound f. Listeners today now have their music stored on the computer‚ where each individual song is a file. With the help of peer-to-peer networks‚ this makes downloading music for free is very easy to do. III. The
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Internet-based file sharing between the entertainment and software industries and the vast‚ online pirating community has been one of the most debated upon topics that has gripped public attention for the past decade. What was once a single public website created by a college dropout has become an empire of trafficking communities‚ used by hundreds of millions of people‚ that robs billions in revenue each year. Although these rogue websites claim to strictly serve only as hosts for illegal file sharing‚ the
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Case Study Outline of Napster 1) Situational Analysis a. Marketing Objectives X To re-establish Napster as the market leader for online music downloading industry. X To establish a competitive market share in the pay-for-play market. X Regain the majority original customer base‚ and entice new users. b. Target Market X Anyone that has internet access and an interest in music. X All ages‚ races‚ sexes‚ income levels‚ education levels and computer knowledge levels. X Anyone
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Grokster case that P2P file sharing companies are liable for copyright infringement because of the uses of P2P software‚ the knowledge and intention of P2P companies‚ and how it is different from the Betamax case years earlier. P2P software has a wide variety of uses providing solutions to many different
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Therefore replicating material suppresses innovation. Then there are those who think that such material is free and easy to download directly on the device of choice without any physical or tangible add-ons. Advocates of such behaviour argue that file sharing technology grows creativity and allows unlimited possibilities to manipulate any kind of content‚ such as video games. These people simply do not think of the copyright company but of themselves and what they gain by doing as such. . Bryan Lee
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File Management Amanda Dyer POS/355 September 4‚ 2014 August Smith File Management File management in any computer system is a very crucial function. Proper file management alleviates everyday issues in file protection‚ to allow a smooth experience for users. Using file protection for operating systems‚ such as Unix‚ can be very easy and simple. Unix is a multiuser operating system that is used on a wide range of machines from powerful microcomputers to supercomputers
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All around the world people connected to the internet are downloading free digital content through P2P file sharing software. Intellectual property rights are being broken as people are downloading free content through P2P (Peer 2 Peer) networks‚ and illegal websites online. Production companies can’t do anything about that because developers of this type of software can’t be blamed for what people share. And no one can track the people behind the illegal websites. Production companies took
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UNIX File Access In order to understand how to control access to a file in a system that supports 5‚000 users to 4‚990 of those users‚ a basic understanding of the file permissions of a file on a UNIX system is necessary. A user has the ability to perform three basic actions to a file‚ read‚ write and execute. These three actions will be represented by r‚ w‚ and x respectively. A UNIX system uses a combination of these characters to control the file permissions. The first three characters represent
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