can rent automobiles‚ kennels‚ rides‚ solar power‚ toys‚ books‚ art‚ fashion‚ movies‚ sugar and spices‚ food‚ storage‚ lending‚ bartering‚ education and even maids‚ friends and nannies ! Google‚ General Motors‚ Avis‚ BMW‚ Toyota‚ Barclays‚ Ford‚ Radiohead and many other big brands and organizations have all jumped into the ‘collaborative consumption’ bandwagon to supplement their business strategies Objective of study Understand and explore the reasons behind this consumer behavior. What made
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Virtual Shoplifters Everyone knows that shoplifting a CD is illegal and morally wrong. However‚ not all people agree that downloading music or copying a CD is theft. Most people are aware of the copyright laws‚ but some people are confused about the ethics of downloading music. I am one of those people who is confused. I download music on occasion. I have never felt I was participating in an unethical activity. However‚ I do understand that downloading music is cheating the artists from
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Digital Music Piracy Can’t Stop‚ Won’t Stop Digital music piracy‚ or the unlawful downloading of copyrighted music‚ has been a controversial topic for more than a decade now. The issue was first brought to attention in 1998 when Shawn Fanning created Napster. Though the MP3 file was originally developed in 1987‚ Napster represented the first mainstream and user-friendly program to transfer and download these files. Napster‚ a peer-to-peer (P2P) program‚ allowed online users to connect with
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featured LEGO rebuilding. This was often in a very complicated manner to give the illusion of movement. The video also cleverly matches the colours that The White Stripes always dress in and use on their CD artwork – red‚ white and black. 3. Radiohead – Knives Out This video features Thom Yorke at a hospital bedside occupied by his partner (played by Emma De Caunes. Imagine the game of operation done for real with real doctors and that is pretty much what you get from this video. Doctors work
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Chomsky‚ Goldwater‚ Zinn‚ Carol Dweck‚ James Allen‚ and more. News: The Economist‚ Washington Post‚ Democracy Now and NPR. Watch: The West Wing‚ The Office‚ Sherlock‚ Health/Environment/Historical/Political Documentaries. Music: Leonard Cohen‚ Radiohead‚ Fugees‚ Kamasi Washington‚ Pixies‚ Otis Redding‚ Jack Johnson‚ Whitney. Name one thing you are looking forward to experiencing at Stanford. (50 word limit) The people. No matter where I am‚ I strive to surround myself with intellectuals who
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Music photographer Todd Owyoung has always loved music his whole life. His two favorite things in the world are by far music and photography. All of his life he has been fascinated by the two. When he was young he constantly found himself taking pictures of anything that caught his eye. He also loved to listen to music and go to live concerts. After finally bringing his camera to a concert several years ago‚ Todd found himself at the intersection of two of his life long dreams; photography and
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The Music Industry in a Digital Age Table of Contents * Report Justification * Summary * Introduction * Main Body * Conclusion * Bibliography Report Justification As multimedia students we have become accustom to the changing technology around us. We are always at the forefront of fads and changes. In terms of music most people carry around with them an ipod or some form of mp3 player. In 2006 46.6 million ipods alone were sold by Apple. In the same
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Essay Analysis (Name) (University/Institution) “And You Will Know Us by the Trail of German Butterballs” By Jonathan Kauffman Many Americans are discovering the value of locally or own grown food. By doing this‚ they help reduce the carbon print while at the same time supporting local business (Elton). The general concern posed by the writer in this article is how the local-foods movement is gradually becoming a global trend. As the author sites how the movement is steadily growing
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first year together planning a group that was first called Pectoralz. After Guy Berryman‚ their classmate‚ had joined the band‚ they renamed themselves Starfish and performed in local clubs. Their first musical influence was the British rock band Radiohead. The group was completed when Will Champion joined to take up percussion duties. It finally settled on the name “Coldplay”. After completing their final examinations‚ Coldplay signed to the agency Parlophone for a five-album contract in 1999. Until
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mentioned in various forms of modern culture. He takes place as “Mephistophilus” in Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor (Act 1‚ Sc 1‚ line 128) and in a book by John Banville (1911 Encyclopedia). The name Mephistopheles has been mentioned in songs by Radiohead‚ Watain‚ the Police‚ and much more. He is all too familiar in television and movies like:
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