11th Week - The Ethics of Peer-to-Peer Filesharing...

Lecture

Steal This Film 2

Nabster - global party- everyone suddenly had access to the largest music library in the world

Entertainment industry now go after individuals who download - tens of thousands are getting sued

Printing:
Printers were hunted down - associated with rebellion
Printing was considered un-holey work of the devil
Printing threatened the ideas and protection of literature
During the 1970s, printing was distributed underground
Urge to communicate - ideas pushed to the limit - and then becoming even better

ARPA net
Each machine shares resources
Joseph Lickliter - created the concept of networking computers

Networking: no hierarchy - all equal - no body in charge
Reproduction and distribution of data in milliseconds
Information copied from one network to the other

Copying on information is out of control - to many people involved to be able to shut everything down
Companies might be shut down, but there are still networks

Human’s are constantly sharing information and wanting to communicate
We all reproduce and distribute information


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READING; When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide.

In 1999 he began working for a major recording label, it was hear he realized how many people are involved in creating a CD and that is why they cost approximately $18.

When music became available to download for free, musicians and the companies who help create their fame lost money. People lose interest in buying their CDs and having a stack of CDs piled up; instead downloading is cheaper and can be stored on small mp3 players etc.

Unlike newspapers, record companies own the distribution and the product being distributed, so you can't just start your own website where you give out music that they own - and that's what this is all about: distribution.

Oink- a fast downloading site with access to music. World’s largest music store. Gives viewers the opportunity to listen to music they wouldn’t have listened to in the beginning. Maybe taking the money out of music is the only way to get money back into it.

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Tute

This week we continued working on our essay's and blogs.

At half time we were showed how to use Windows Movie Maker, using the basic tools we had available. Windows Movie Maker is a basic program that would be best used for beginers and simple movies that can be posted on you tube.