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Thesis: There has been much debate about the commonwealth’s and the Australian communications and media authority’s campaign to give the Internet censorship that is not required. For reasons such as freedom to talk about ideas, to talking to people around the world. In china there are estimated to be around 30 thousand police surfing the web, covering up websites the government does not want you looking up. Things such as just searching up “human rights” will bring you to a page that says you

lower percentage of users, the prices are much higher in order to gain profit. “The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You’re going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.” A quote said by the programmer Gabe Newell of his opinion about programming. Past few years, programming developed a lot. From simple games like Pac-Man to high resolution games like FIFA, Black Ops, and Grand Theft Auto. Programming is widespread profession, as every year, even more and

Introduction & Problem Identification The case study “The ‘No Manager’ Company: How Does it Work?” focuses on Valve; an American video game distribution and development company. Founded by ex-Microsoft employee Gabe Newell in 1996. Valves unique no-manager based flat organisational structure has drawn a lot of attention to the videogame company. Valve firmly believes that its flat ‘no-manager based organisational structure’ influences and drives both creativity and innovation within the organisation

In June of 1999 Shawn Fanning, John Fanning, and Sean Parker created an independent peer-to-peer file sharing website called Napster, Named after John Fanning’s high school nickname. A peer-to-peer (P2P) service allows access to media files like movies, music, books and games by using a certain program that connects to other computers on the same network, meaning that when someone downloaded a file it was coming directly from another person’s computer. The website was specifically designed to transfer

File Sharing “I 'd like to propose another toast to you, the listener. It doesn 't matter how you got this, you bought it, you downloaded it, and your grandma gave it to you.” (Jones). Chances are anybody who has ever used the internet has downloaded copyrighted material. Many people view downloading copyrighted material from the internet as stealing, but others see it as a distribution of human knowledge and information. File sharing, more formally known today as torrents, should be legal.

Introduction The 21st century rapidly changed society putting forth new opportunities and demands in a quest for a better future. With these elaborate changes particularly regarding the current sophistication of technology, the workplace has also been propelling forward particularly focusing on the way in which they are governed. An organisational structure is the process of arranging people and other resources to work together to accomplish a goal (Schermerhorn, 2011). However, what happens when

piracy study funded by NBCUniversal, it appears that a lot of pirates are downloading movies as a matter of convenience” (Mead, 2013). Forbes.com writer, Paul Tassi, supports this theory by stating that “‘[p]iracy is a service problem.’ Valve’s Gabe Newell said that years ago, touting the success of Steam, his online video game distribution service. The premise is that while piracy is appealing because it’s free, it’s also appealing because it’s easy” (Tassi, 2014). These statements clearly describe

INTRODUCTION Valve software is a successful entertainment and software company with over 300 employees. Valve software wanted to create a working environment that empowered their employees and gave them the freedom to be creative. What they have achieved is a very successful company that operates on a ‘flat’ structure where there are no managers or supervisors to report to and all employees are equals. “The company tries to keep its structure flat to remove or reduce barriers between the employees

Introduction This report will look back on the group project to make the game Chased by Snakes as part of the group Danger Noodle. This will look back at how the group managed the project with a flat structure and relaxed development deadlines and how this affected the final project. The report will then look at the requirements set by the client, and how these were finalised for implementation. Then the implementation of the project will be discussed looking back on how the features were put into