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In the copyright lawsuit, that was filed in 2006, the labels and the R.I.A.A., accused LimeWire of running a Website that could be used for allowing users to upload and download music without permission. LimeWire began in 2000, and the labels contend that Mark Gorton, who was the site’s creator and a defendant in the case, continued to operate the business even after the Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that a similiar act was held by Grokster, could potentially be accountable for infringement. Although

technology and music products. In the United States, the issue of censorship doesn’t necessarily concern music products but rather new music technology. The music industry has become increasingly concerned with the online peer-to-peer services like Kazaa and Morpheus using the MP3 format or motion pictures expert group which allows users to download music free and fast (Cloonan, 2003). In almost every other part of the world, music is censored someway or another usually by a country’s government,

Internet & Society: Technologies and Politics of Control From the moment Internet file-sharing became a reality, exploding into millions of homes and dorms, something changed. Internet file sharing brought with it the opportunity to access for free what had previously cost money. Beyond that, file sharing created a social norm that music and digital media ought to be free. How did this happen? How did file sharers warp reality and forever create this notion that digital media, notably music doesn’t

As for an example, Boehm in his research describes a copyright infringement case against an individual illegally downloading music from KaZaA, which resulted in a summary judgment in favor of the RIAA in the amount of $750 per song, totaling to $22,500 per 13 downloaded songs (181). David Bach describes in 2004 article for Business and Politics that these high profile lawsuits against individuals

transfer copy written material. It is contested that the very existence of this software promotes piracy. The paper will focus on the creators of the file sharing software, knowing that the user employs their product illegally. The software creators (Kazaa, Grokster, Morpheus, etc) are claiming that they cannot control what the end user does with its product. In fact, this point has been upheld by a recent court ruling. As music and movies are now available almost exclusively in digital formats

industry to provide more content on the internet for a cheaper price, and on different devices. In 2006, Jammie Thomas-Rasset a mother of four violated intellectual property laws by downloading illegal music in her use of the file-sharing program Kazaa. The country's top court upheld without comment the verdict against Jammie Thomas-Rasset in the long-running, high-profile digital piracy case.Three trials and multiple appeals later, she has been ordered to pay amounts as high as $1.92 million or

Case Study 1B ¡V The questions The online downloading of music from the Internet has ripped apart the old business model of record companies controlling the production of albums which are purchased through record shops. The last few turbulent years have seen many high profile law suits; some of which went in favour of the music industry and some of which went against. 1. Apply the value chain and competitive forces models to the music recording industry. 2. What role did the Internet play in changing

Music Licensing In 1993 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $12.5 billion to the software industry, with a loss of $2.2 billion in the United States alone. Estimates show that over 40 percent of U.S. software company revenues are generated overseas, yet nearly 85 percent of the software industry's piracy losses occurred outside of the United States borders. The Software Publishers Association indicated that approximately 35 percent of the business software

Copyright Stance With over three billion people in the world utilizing the internet there is great danger for copyright infringement to occur (Internet Live Stats). Copyright law protects the creator of an original piece of work exclusive rights to the work. Many people who use the internet are sharing files that do not belong to them and are guilty of copyright infringement. Copyright law needs to be tightened up in the digital space to protect the creator of their unique work. In the case of

Table of Contents Page # Introduction 2 Types of Business Models 2 2.1 Business to Consumer Model 2 Business to Business Model 3 Consumer to Consumer Model 3 References 4 Appendices 5 Introduction There are different types of e-commerce business models that are being developed day by day which is restricted to the imagination of a human mind. Out of these business models, three of the most common and important business models are; business to consumer models (B2C), business to business