Online Piracy Online piracy has continued to grow in this digital age. You’ll find a large majority of homes equipped with a computer and access to the outside internet. This is for the most part harmless for the average user‚ but as technology continues to pave the way‚ a greater ease of access to content is available to anyone who chooses to pursue it. Among this available content is illegal distributions of music‚ movies‚ games‚ and applications‚ which normally could only be found at a local
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he music industry has typically borne the brunt of online piracy‚ because the smaller file sizes of songs make them easy to download and share. According to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI)‚ which represents the interests of the UK music industry‚ online copyright infringement cost the music industry over £200 million in lost revenue in 2009‚ and the cumulative total losses between 2001 and 2012 are estimated to be £1.2 billion (see BPI‚ File-sharing FAQs). For a number of years‚ peer-to-peer
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Daring Rescue Mission Frees U.S. Sea Captain A US ship captain by the name of Richard Phillips was captured by Somali pirates and was held on a small vessel. The pirates captured him because they were holding him because they wanted to be paid a ransom by Maersk Corporation who wer the owners of the ship. The pirates were threatening to kill Phillips so because it was a US owned vessel‚ President Obama authorized a rescue operation that allowed US Seals to attempt a rescue of Captain Phillips
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A Study of Software Piracy: the Forms and the Impacts to Taiwan BUS 6170 Information System Management Instructor: Professor Ryan LaBrie 12/10/2009 Seattle Pacific University Gini Cheang Table of Contents Abstract 2 Introduction 3 Discussion 4 Types of Software Piracy 4 Statistics 5 Impacts 7 Conclusion 11 References 12 Appendix 1 13 Appendix 2 14 Appendix 3 15 Abstract Software piracy has seriously affected the global
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Introduction Software piracy is a thing affecting most business in the world today and it seems evident that even though businesses improve and make it much harder for these criminals to copy their products it’s only a matter of time before they usually find a way to replicate the products therefore making software piracy all but impossible to stop. According to the Oxford Dictionary software piracy is the unauthorised use or reproduction of another’s work. So basically software piracy in the 21st century
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growing number of internet users participating in movie piracy‚ this creates a network of users who no longer need to go the movie theatre or video store to watch a movie. Movie piracy has grown enormously in the past few years making it easier than ever to find box office releases with the simple click of a button. This creates a world where it is okay to steal billions of dollars from movie producers‚ because most of those participating in piracy see nothing wrong with it. Although there are consequences
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PIRACY IN AUSTRALIA Professional Computing Practice - Assignment 1 Authors: Ornan Wei S3341875‚ Araunah Wei S3341874 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 4 2 ISSUES OF PIRACY 4 3 PIRACY SOLUTIONS 5 3.1 Stakeholders involved 5 3.2 Solution 1 6 3.3 Solution 2 6 3.4 Preferred solution 6 4 SURVEY 7 APPENDIX A: REFERENCES 8 APPENDIX B: KEY TERMS 9 1 INTRODUCTION As a first world nation‚ it is a surprised that Senator Brandis said that Australia is the worst offender of any
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Internet Piracy and the effect on the music industry By: Ahmad Mahmoud diab ID : 115766 Internet piracy is a Multifaceted problem and it was showed as the unlawful duplication of internet‚ videos and audio encompassing music and voice‚ lacking the consent from the one who hold the (copyrights (Gopal‚ Sanders‚ Bahattacharjee‚ Agrawal‚ & Wagner‚ 2004) The internet piracy effects the music and the CDs industry and makes a heavey losses in it . Many of people in the music industry
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Global Entertainment REPORT on Music Piracy 05.11.2013. Music piracy Industry Comparative Study – Piracy Table of Content INTRODUCTION This report purpose is to analyze the piracy‚ and the industrial response to it‚ in the music industry concentrating on three pre-selected regions. The structure of the report consists of the analysis of the global context of the music industry‚ a more detailed analysis of the product and distribution situation
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Is Music Piracy Stealing? For centuries‚ the term piracy calls forth an image of a plundering character that can be found in one of today’s most popular movies‚ Pirates of the Caribbean. But over recent decades‚ the term piracy has evolved into one who infringes copyrighted material. Instead of that dirty one-eyed pirate with a wooden peg leg and cutlass sword‚ the pirate now can be anyone‚ any size‚ any age. Charles Moore wrote the essay‚ “Is Music Piracy Stealing?”‚ and tried to answer his
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