The Pirate Bay Case Study 24 06 2009 Introduction The Internet has served as a medium for peers to share any kind of files‚ like pictures‚ videos‚ music‚ books‚ etc. However‚ in order for peers to be able to exchange files‚ a platform is needed. There are many platforms available that serve as a bridge technology so that peers can share files with other peers around the world. These platforms only serve as a connection devise and not as a piracy store. As a result of the existence of these
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in the Caribbean Most of us today think of pirates as something that exists only in movies and literature‚ but 300 years ago this was a very different story. Much unlike what you may see in today’s pop culture piracy was a very fair and democratic system where crew members could elect their own captains and where Africans were considered equal to whites‚ a truly revolutionary concept for its time‚ considering that the use of slaves was a common practice at the time. Piracy in the Caribbean carried
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CAST STUDY NO.2 PIRATES OF GLOBALIZATION Presented to Professor (Dr.) Joseph F. Aiyeku MB 616: International Business Management. By Group No.2 1. What actions con companies and governments take to ensure that products cannot be easily pirates? Be specific. Answer: For example of garments products of Tommy Hilfiger; there are three categories for man‚ woman and children wears Products for man; Sport wear‚ Tailored‚ Underwear‚ Bags and eyewear Products for woman;
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Pirates of the Silverland A. INTRODUCTION OF THE CASE Palm Haul Sdn Bhd (PHSB) was actively engaged in the business of transportation of crude palm oil (CPO). It was in a niche market because of high demand in delivering the CPO from the mills to the refineries. In addition‚ due to this reason‚ the industry players were rewarded with high gross profit margin which ranged on 35% - 45% with low administrative overheads. However‚ as PHSB involved in service industry‚ high cost of sales was inevitable
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C ASE S TUDY The Pirate Bay: The World’s Most Resilient Copyright Infringer? The Pirate Bay (TPB)‚ a Swedish Web site (Piratebay.org)‚ is one of the world’s most popular pirated music and content sites‚ offering free access to millions of copyrighted songs and thousands of copyrighted Hollywood movies. In June 2011‚ The Pirate Bay reported that it had about 5 m illion r egistered u s ers‚ a nd 25 m illion n on-registered u sers ( so-called "free riders "). To p ut t hat n umber i n p
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Pirates of the Footpath By Name: Anupam Chatterjee Class roll no. – 001000501023 Dissertation submitted towards the fulfillment of the requirements of MA 4th semester examination 2012 Department of Film Studies Jadavpur University Acknowledgements I am grateful to the following people for helping me complete
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1. Why did TPB believe it was not violating copyright laws? What did the Swedish Court rule? The Pirate Bay believed it was not violating copyright laws because they said that they were merely a search engine similar to Google or Bing and were just providing the access or link to existing P2P networks that TPB does not itself control or run. They believed that since they weren’t actually providing the information or the files that consumers were looking for they were not violating
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Pirates of Silverland: Background Oilene Refineries Sdn Bhd (Oilene) is company that refines Crude Palm Oil (CPO) into finished products. Oilene sourced its feedstock from mills‚ whereby its CPO stock is transported to the refining facility by Palm Haul Sdn Bhd (PHSB)‚ a transport company based in Perak. Since 2006‚ the transport service rendered by PHSB has been facing challenges whereby its portion of its CPO cargo is sold to illegal market by its truck drivers. To compensate the missing load
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how did the early English planters in the West Indies respond to the novelty of life in the tropics/ to the novelty of large-scale sugar production? And to the novelty of slave labor?” Summary: Dunn’s book chronicles the settling and early growth of the first 3 generations of British colonists in the Caribbean islands. From a modest attempt to grow North American staples tobacco and cotton‚ largely with white indentures and their own labor‚ the islands quickly turned‚ with Dutch assistance‚ into
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Many pirate books popularize the belief that pirates wear eyepatches and make people walk the plank. While some of these beliefs are true‚ many are not what real pirates do. Pirate novels romanticized the idea of pirates by making them seem that pirate booty is always gold and jewels‚ making people walk the plank and that there were no women pirates. Firstly‚ pirate booty is not always gold and jewels. Sometimes‚ pirates don’t even bury their loot. While their earnings can be riches and gold‚ most
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