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History Of Privateering Pirates
1,354 words... cargo and withstand the torture of the open sea were built. Advances were made in sail design and mast placement. These new ships had multiple sails, which made them faster and more maneuverable. They also had an upgraded rudder system enabling the ship to hold to the water better and withstand heavy seas. The two main types of ships at this time were: The Carrack a large merchant vessel having three masts and many types of defense mechanisms such as fighting castles; Second was the Galleon,...
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Elkin Koren Potentially Harmful
1,999 wordsWhat copyright is may be summed up as: 3. 1 [... ] a type of property right which is founded on a person's creative skill and labour. It is designed to prevent the unauthorised use by others of a work, that is, the original form in which an idea or information has been expressed by the creator. 3. 2 Copyright is not a tangible thing. It is made up of a bundle of exclusive economic rights to do certain acts with an original work or other copyright subject-matter. FN 9 FN 9 Copyright Law in Austra...
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Market For Personal Computers In Germany
2,501 words... percent in 1997. While Germany will always be a leader in industry the country is making a move in a different direction now. Again with the year 2000 in mind the German is calling for an initiative named "Germany 21. " The focus of this push is for Germany to "catch-up" in the areas of communications, and information and technology (IT). They will be taking measures to coordinate the framework for the information society, widely increase accessibility to the Internet, and create programs to...
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Cd Rom Drive Mp 3 Files
1,482 wordsMotion-Picture-Experts Group, Audio Level 3 (or more commonly known as MP 3) -- this new form of audio compression has become a wide topic of controversy over the past few years. MP 3 has caused a wide debate over legal and ethical issues since its release in January 1995. Many court cases and lawsuits have resulted from the release of this new technological innovation and there are sure to be many more. MP 3 s are highly compressed audio files that can be stored on any computer storage medium. ...
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Recording Industry Association Negative Effects
800 wordsIntroduction: For centuries people had dreamed of capturing the sounds and music from the environment. Many had attempted it but no one had succeeded until Thomas Alva Edison discovered a method of recording and playing back sound. What had started out as an apparatus intended as part of an improved telephone led to the development of an instrument which would change the world, making it a happier, even a better, place to live. Revolutions: (Case of Mp 3 sharing software development) A revolutio...
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1,170 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Three years ago I published a book of short stories in Israel. The publishing house belongs to Israels leading (and exceedingly wealthy) newspaper. I signed a contract which stated that I am entitled to receive 8 % of the income from the sales of the book after commissions payable to distributors, shops, etc. A few months later, I won the coveted Prize of the Ministry of Education (for...
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Term Papers Pirated Software
1,228 wordsNo one denies that the Internet is the most useful tool for research, business, and education, yet the Internet is the subject of a topic that is as controversial as the legalities of abortion or homosexual rights: ethics and the Internet. Many racy, illegal, and controversial materials are available on the Internet such as pornography and pirated software; on the other hand, many educational tools are on-line as well. This brings a need for a case of ethics in the Internet realm. A definition o...
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Sexually Explicit Internet Pornography
1,252 words... t the do help[s] people (Cybercheats). Some ivy league colleges take the stance that none of their students plagiarize papers, that there has never been any trouble with that kind of cheating, and that their school is too respectable for that kind of action and the students understand that. On the other hand, students interviewed from colleges such as Harvard attest that they have used plagiarized material before because it was easy to attain and the classes were only being taken, as they we...
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Mp 3 Files State Of California
1,588 wordsThe trading of MP 3 's or digital music over the Internet is always going to be prevalent in music, and it is an unrealistic goal to try to control. The cost of controlling the piracy issues over the Internet would cost record companies more money than what they are losing due to MP 3 trading. The record industry is trying to fight the major sites and companies in court with copyright suits. Although downloading music over the Internet and playing it back on computer or portable digital music pl...
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Protecting Consumer Privacy Protecting Consumer Piracy
370 words"I don't think vendors are going to build in privacy protections if there is no incentive for profit, " said Avi Rubin, principal researcher at AT& T labs. Right now protecting consumer privacy depends on polices and rules-based authorization engine, rather then companies providing the technologies. The industry standard for protecting consumer privacy today is the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project. This project allows consumers to gain more control over personal information on sites ...
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Intellectual Property Rights District Court
2,882 wordsDigital Bootlegging and Its effects on the Music Industry Before the advent of MP 3 files it would require 1. 400 megabytes to represent just one second of stereo music in CD quality. MP 3 is short for Moving Picture Experts Group, Audio Layer III. Standard MP 3 compression is at a 10: 1 ratio, and yields a file that is about 4 MB for a three-minute track. In 1987, Prof. Dieter Seitzer of the University of Erlangen created the MP 3 format to replace pre-existing MPEG audio coding. The reason MP ...
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Vicious Circle Copyright Law
865 wordsCanadas Copyright Law Canadas copyright law is one of our hardest laws to enforce. The reason the police have so much trouble enforcing this law, is due to technology. This law is very easy to break, and once broken, it is very hard to track down violators. So although some form of a copyright law is needed, the one we have has, too many holes to be effective. There are three main ways in which the copyright law is broken in everyday life. They is audio / video tape copying, plagiarism, and soft...
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Internet Piracy Senator Issues
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Compact Disc Intellectual Property
1,708 wordsIn Ipp Intellectual Property Piracy In today = s society technology has made life easier and almost totally automated. You no longer need to go to a teller in a bank to deposit, withdraw, or even cash a check. You can even program a calculator to solve for the c value in an equation in math class. To even top things off you no longer need to be at home or around a computer to go on to the internet with advancements in cellular phone technology. Unfortunately there are drawbacks to the rapidly gr...
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Recording Industry Association Beastie Boys
985 wordsCall it the last battle of the twentieth century, or the first battle of the next millennium. But dont short-sell the importance of the battle raging between the music performers and big record labels. The battlefield is the Internet, and at stake is who controls the distribution of music. In the old days, the process went like this: singer to record label to distributor to retailer to media outlet (including dance clubs) to consumer. But advances in technology create what consultants call hold ...
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Recording Industry Association Mp 3 Player
1,051 wordsAre MP 3? s a breakthrough in technology or are they just another bomb waiting to explode on us? Many people say they are good, while others say they are not just bad, but horrifying to musicians that want to make it to the top. MP 3? s are widely used by teenagers on their computers usually illegally, and their distributors are constantly being threatened by the producers of the music. Millions of dollars are being lost due to the Internet craze of the MP 3 technology. This is mainly because fe...
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Sex And Violence Parental Advisory
1,208 wordsThe regulation of music in America has been increasing significantly with the advancements of such companies like Napster and the technology to burn or copy cd s. Bands such as Metallica and rap singer Dr. Dre have been some of the leaders in the fight to eliminate the piracy of copyrighted music. Along with these regulations, the parental advisory system that has been in effect since the mid 1980 s has also taking many steps to update their system to help parents identify music which includes e...
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Recording Industry Association Mp 3 Files
2,216 words/ Copyrighted Napster NapsteCopyrighted we stand, Pirated we fall: This is what the music industry would have people believe. Welcome to the information age! Any information is available to whoever wants it, needs it, or just has a lot of time to spend looking for it. The latest victim of the information age is the RIAA, The Recording Industry Association of America. The argument: The right to trade RIAA artists songs using the Napster server in MP 3 format over the Internet. Can the furor over ...
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Wall Street Journal Mp 3 Player
1,300 wordsCD Burners Who Should Be Held Responsible? In today? s world many people are using CD burners to copy Compact Disks (CD? s). The question is who should be held responsible, the companies that manufacture these devices or the people that use the devices to copy CD? s of friends and family members. No matter how you look at it, it is digital piracy, which is illegal and goes under the copyright laws of the individuals that produced the music that is being downloaded. I think that the companies tha...
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