Analysis of The Pirate Bay Case The Pirate Bay is a file sharing website based in Sweden that is comparable to other peer-to-peer (P2P) e-commerce sites like Napster and Kazaa. The company faces scrutiny but has avoided closure by modifying business practices and finding legal loopholes regarding copyright protection (Laudon & Traver‚ 2010). The case study "Internet Piracy: The Pirate Bay" analyzes the company and its place in the history of e-commerce‚ and reveals startling effects of P2P sites
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Octubre? Have you notice the presence of a pirate vessel called Morgan? Have you travel in it? If the answer for these questions is yes‚ you will probably disregard the history behind the pirates in our country. You will now be transported to the year 1684‚ to be witness of the atrocities committed by the corsairs that know we praise by having a vessel in our river Guayas. Body Since 1684 ports in Central America and Panama were infested by pirates. February 1687 they decided to attack and
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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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CASE: Managing Offshore Investments: Who’s Currency?1 The Offshore Investment Fund (OIF) was incorporated in Fairfield‚ Connecticut‚ for the sole purpose of allowing U.S. shareholders to invest in Maltese securities. The Fund is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The custodian of the Fund is the Shady Rest Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut (“Shady Rest”)‚ which keeps the accounts of the Fund. The question very quickly arose as to the currency in which the books of the fund were to be
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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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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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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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Ozuma Environmental Impacts of Offshore Drilling Offshore drilling Energy bonanza or Environmental disaster? if any choice is going to be made‚ one fact that makes the environment much germane than the offshore energy bonanza is that unlike energy‚ the environmental does not have a substitute and if it is destroyed we would have no where to live. Industrial extraction of hydrocarbons did not move offshore until the early 1950s. The first offshore platform was built off the coast of
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