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Record Labels Copyright Laws
1,106 words... py right infringement (7). There is virtually no way to enforce copyright laws on MP 3 s because it's so easy to indirectly violate them. When considering what the Internet is, a vast collection of information interconnected for the public, the need for safe harbors becomes apparent. However, it's these same safe harbors that provide ways to escape liability when an individual does violate copyright laws. Web pages are connected through hyperlinks and search engines so even though a web site...
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Criminal Penalties Software Industry
2,001 wordsIn 1996 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $ 15. 2 billion to the software industry, with a loss of $ 5. 1 billion in the North America alone. Some sources put the total up-to-date losses, due to software crime, as high as $ 4. 7 trillion. On the next page is a regional breakdown of software piracy losses for 1994. Estimates show that over 40 percent of North American software company revenues are generated overseas, yet nearly 85 percent of the software indust...
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Rage Against The Machine Record Companies
1,355 wordsFor many years the record companies have fixed record prices to avoid competing with each other and to maximize their profits. Currently, the record companies are collaborating in order to force Napster to shut down. The record companies are claiming that Napster is breaking copyright laws. Napster is a peace of software available for free on the Internet, which allows you to download almost any song you can think of. All you need to get Napster is a computer and Internet connection, the faster ...
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Internet Service Providers Act Of 1996
2,713 wordsCulture & Technology: A Case Study We live in a time where information is only a mouse-click away for a large portion of the country and the world. Up until ten years ago, people had to go to their local library or purchase an expensive encyclopedia set for their home just to obtain information. Now, information is free and easily accessible from the home. Why pay five hundred dollars for an encyclopedia set when you can get on the Internet and obtain even more information for free? Also, within...
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Domain Names Los Alamos
1,670 words... But, if service providers want to keep their immunity that is granted to them by the Telecommunications Act, then they must successfully self-regulate and police their property without making themselves available to litigation. (Rosenoer, p. 223) If service providers police libel as seriously as they police spamming (the sending of unsolicited email messages), they would be well on the way to effectively policing themselves. Many have hypothesized that because of the global nature of the Int...
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Peer To Peer Moral Goodness
984 wordsKant's deontology and Cyberethics Copyright issue examined within the bounds of morality is an extremely difficult thing, especially when it concerns the concepts of right and wrong. Copyright and intellectual property is often explored in relation to morality and choice between right and wrong. Lets try to answer the question whether Music City should not be held liable for the copyright infringement of Morpheus users. So, what is right and what is wrong? What ethically correct actions are? Can...
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Communications Decency Act Elmer Dewitt
2,096 wordsImproving Cyberspace Thesis: Though governments cannot physically regulate the Internet, cyberspace needs regulations to prevent illegal activity, the destruction of morals, and child access to pornography. I. Introduction. II. Illegal activity online costs America millions and hurts our economy. A. It is impossible for our government to physically regulate cyberspace. 1. One government cannot regulate the Internet by itself. 2. The basic design of the Internet prohibits censorship. B. It is pos...
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Napster Users Digital Millennium
435 wordsThe Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is suing Napster for allegedly enabling music piracy through its proprietary Music Share program. Music Share allows music lovers to open up their stores of MP 3 files to all other Napster users. Whenever a user is online, his MP 3 s are up for grabs, with the only stipulation being that users upload a file for each one that they download. The RIAA says that many of the shared MP 3 s are illegal bootlegs, but Napster insists that it does not, ...
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Mp 3 Files Hard Drive
994 wordsMusic is beautiful, and the artists who create it are greatly appreciated. Music lets you escape reality or get you in touch with reality. Most people can relate to a lot of songs, the reason for this is because the artists who write the songs are in some way or another, just like you and me. In the last two years MP 3 s have become very popular over the Internet and on computers. The new fad deals with sharing MP 3 files with other users by downloading the songs from their computer to yours. Is...
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