The Digital Takeover: Online Media Downloads & File Sharing -Maliq Kendricks
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- The Digital Takeover: Online Media Downloads & File Sharing
-Maliq Kendricks
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- Whatisthisallabout? What is this all about? In the past, music
was not bought online but physically in a retail store. Whether it
was a compact disk, cassette tape, 8-track tape, or vinyl disk. In
modern day, this purchasing of music by store has ceased almost
completely, and almost everyone who buys and listens to music gets
their music from the Internet. The technological advancements of
today such as smart phones, laptops, tablets, or anything else that
can do downloading through a working internet connection have made
it so hard for musicians, labels, and managers to make profit.
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- How music has taken different forms over the years..
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- changed These devices changed the scope of the game, giving
more life and focus to music downloading and file sharing programs
rather than the purchasing of actual compact disks.
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- topped $14.6 billion $6.3 billion According to CNN Money, in
1999, CD revenue topped $14.6 billion in average disk sales, in
comparison to the measly $6.3 billion that the average CD made in
2009 These statistics demonstrate how the advancement of technology
has not only affected peoples commitment to go out and purchase
their music selections, but also how it has given light to the use
of online media such as downloading and file sharing.
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- What is downloading and file sharing? Downloading and file
sharing are two distinct internet tasks that can be done with
almost any type of media.
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- Downloading Downloading Walmart Downloading a file is like
going to Walmart. When you're in the store: you pick an item up off
of the shelf and place it into your shopping cart. (the shelf) (the
shopping cart). When you download, you're just picking a copy of
the file up off the network computer (the shelf) and placing it
onto your computer (the shopping cart).
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- File sharing File sharing File sharing is like a potluck. I
bring a sweet potato pie, and everyone can get a slice. (network),
(owner). In the midst of me sharing it with everyone else
(network), everyone knows that they need to save me a slice before
its gone (owner).
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- Downloading musicsharing files Downloading music and sharing
files has become an essential part of peoples lives throughout the
21 st century. everyone With technological advancements of todays
world, downloading music whether it is legal or illegal has become
something that almost everyone does.
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- What started it all?!
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- NapsterNapsterNapsterNapster 60 million users freely In late
2000 and early 2001, the program had close to 60 million users
around the world who were freely downloading and exchanging digital
mp3 files. 2 years revenue. After much success for 2 years, music
artists and producers began to see the impact of what the program
was doing to their revenue. sued$20 billion In early 2001, a
company by the name of the Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA) became fed up with Napster and sued the program in a
$20 billion infringement case.
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- similarother different fashion Because of Napsters
contradictive success, similar but other programs arose and
conquered consumers attention as did their predecessor.
Nevertheless, to be more successful than Napster was, the programs
worked in a different fashion. LimeWireFrostWireVuze uTorrent
Programs such as LimeWire, FrostWire, Vuze, and uTorrent made it a
goal of theirs to not be anything but better and more long-standing
than Napster.
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- LimeWireLimeWireLimeWireLimeWire Mark Gorton, founder of
LimeWire, who was also a former Wall Street trader, with degrees
from Harvard, Yale, and Stanford took it upon himself to make sure
that his program would be able to coordinate within the confines of
cyberspace law. In 2010, one law suit of the many thirteen that the
program faced was filed against the program ruling that the
platform intentionally caused a "massive scale of infringement" by
permitting the sharing of thousands of copyrighted works by its 50
million monthly users The RIAA believed that the program owed them
an estimated $72 trillion dollars and in their filed law suit, the
RIAA requested $150,000 for each download of 11,000 infringed song
tracks
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- Intellectual Property Both programs faced law suits from the
RIAA, and each included the concept of Intellectual Property.
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- What is Intellectual Property? work inventioncreativity patent
copyrighttrademark Intellectual Property is defined to be a work or
invention that is the result of creativity, such as a manuscript or
a design, to which one has rights and for which one may apply for a
patent, copyright, or trademark Most people regard Intellectual
Property as being the mother of all subjects dealing with who has
the right to what, especially when dealing with copyright
laws.
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- Copyright Copyrighted To have something Copyrighted is defined
to be the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise
exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed,
audio, video January 1, 1978 This law stands for any work granted
by law on or after January 1, 1978
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- Tying it all together In regards to both Napster and LimeWire,
there were many Copyright legal matters that were brought up in
each of their cases. The music industry felt as though all of the
Copyright Laws that the government had invented, were being
blatantly overlooked. According to the law, any materials owned by
people who wrote or produced them, have the say so as to how the
materials should be sold and distributed; but this was not the
case!
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- legal After Napster and LimeWire managed to pull their names
out of the dirt, and after their law suits were settled, both
programs were able to make a comeback in the world, in a legal
way.
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- iTunes Today, people have created programs like iTunes which
have made it possible to download and share files in a way that
they cannot be sued but also make profit.
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- net As time progresses, technology will only improve and who is
to say what will be done next ? The Question.