Car sharing

Two-Shoes. The first type of driver falls into the careless category, also known as the DJ. DJs tend to blare music at deafening decibels. To maximize their disturbance, DJs also typically drive with all windows rolled down including the sunroof. If the cars immediately surrounding them are not shaking along to the beat DJs are unsatisfied. DJs are also really good at multitasking. Rather than their main focus being on the road or the surroundings, DJs' attention is on whatever handheld device they're

running his own car detailing business. Glenn wants to start up a new company, Custom Car Care, cleaning and detailing cars. Glenn began this venture as a part time job but he wants to turn it into his full time job. To ensure that his business will be successful, especially in comparison to other similar businesses in his area, Glenn must make sure his business idea is realistic, sustainable, and profitable. To ensure that Glenn can build a respectable reputation as a car detailing business

format of music such as MP3’s allows for easy and light weight access to hundreds if not thousands of songs on one small single device. Not to mention how easily one may transfer these files from one electronic device to another. In 1999 the online sharing program Napster debuted. The system is also known as “peer to peer” (p2p). It allowed users to freely share and swap (copyrighted)

to be wrong, but not criminal. He examines the mentality of people towards music piracy and says that, “The problem is that most people simply don't buy the claim that illegally downloading a song or video from the Internet really is like stealing a car.” Music piracy, complimented by the Internet has made the activity of illegally downloading music too easy and too casual. Another big disadvantage of music piracy is its cost. “One credible study by the Institute for Policy Innovation hooks the annual

We all know that downloading pirated music and films is illegal, but what exactly is it? The term piracy refers to the copying and selling of music, films and other media illegally; in other words you are copying and selling copyrighted media without the permission of the original owner (NiDirect, n.d.). With the massive growth of the internet and its ability to store and capture vast amounts of data, we have become much more reliable on information systems in all aspects of life, but it does not

has on the industry Research Question: How has the consumer’s attitude toward piracy affected the music industry? Word Count: 2,909 Introduction “A decade’s worth of music file sharing has made it clear that the people it hurts are the creators... and the people this reverse Robin Hooding benefits are rich service providers, whose swollen profits perfectly mirror the lost receipts of the music business.” (Bono, IFPI Digital

piracy within systems. As informatics students we find that it is essential to understand all aspects of systems and the role they play in aiding the transfer of illegal, copywrite, intellectual property of others. With extensive research into file sharing, we have discovered that that peer-to-peer file exchange is one of the most common enabler of the exchange of illegal data. Peer-to peer file exchange occur both physically through the use of USB drives and CD’s as well as over the internet, through

Ethics of Peer to Peer downloading and Sharing Strayer University Abstract In the short time that computers and internet have existed in the modern era, the world has seen a complete 360 degree turn and in the various forms of electronic entertainment that people all over the world are now using. In the days before CD’s, DVD’s and the internet, not much was said if a vinyl album (remember these?), VHS cassette (or these?) or an audio cassette was loaned to a friend for their listening /

Digital Music Piracy Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop Digital music piracy, or the unlawful downloading of copyrighted music, has been a controversial topic for more than a decade now. The issue was first brought to attention in 1998 when Shawn Fanning created Napster. Though the MP3 file was originally developed in 1987, Napster represented the first mainstream and user-friendly program to transfer and download these files. Napster, a peer-to-peer (P2P) program, allowed online users to connect with

Limewire: The Rise and Fall of File Sharing When I was in middle school, the biggest way to get music for free was a website named Limewire. Nothing was more exciting than to be able to hear a song on the radio then go home and download it to our desktops. Also cool, was the fact that if one of us didn’t have a song, our friend could simply “burn” it onto a c.d. for us. That was the only way we knew how to get music, aside from going out and buying the whole album. Apple’s iTunes was just starting