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Piracy in China The American Heritage Dictionary defines piracy as “the unauthorized duplication of copyrighted or patented material.” It is a problem that affects companies all over the world. Piracy of software, movies, and music is commonplace in China. China has the second worst piracy rate in the world; about 92 percent of the software in China is pirated (Williams 2004). Various companies and governments have attempted to combat piracy, but they had not seen much success until recent

Over the last decade, sellers of digital products have actively fought the availability of pirated copies of their products. Nevertheless, digital piracy rates are still high and increasing in many markets, despite a continuous increase in the availability and sophistication of copy protection and digital rights management technologies. It 's a problem that many businesses, specifically entertainment industries, have a problem with. Although a relatively new problem to the business world, cases against

Case Analysis: APPLE INC.: IPODS AND ITUNES Donna Martinelli TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY September 3, 2014 Table of Contents Executive Summary..................................................................................................3 Introduction………………………………………………..………………………………..3 Defining the Challenge...............................................................................................3 Analyzing the case data...................................

Electronic File Sharing Often times new technology enables completely new activities, discoveries, and ways of living, once not possible without that particular technology. An example of this would be the microscope and telescope, which now allow us to see things not possible before. Other times, new technology allows us to do things which we did before, but in a different way.1 A good example of this is electronic file sharing over the Internet. Unauthorized file sharing was possible

copyright laws intact, all of this sharing is illegal. The courts think different. The reason Napster was in trouble with copyright laws is because it held a database where the files were stored for users to download from. Other companies, like KaZaA, don't have a database. They just provide the software needed to share files, computer to computer, for users to swap. This is not illegal (Auster). Christopher Knab gives this advice to emerging artists, "Hell, give your music away[...]do you want

Market capitalization is a popular metric for assessing the size of a company as a representation of the investing public's notion of the company's worth. The figure is derived by simply multiplying the number of outstanding shares of the company's stock by the share price. (Slivka, 2010) 3.3 The learning Curve Access to distribution channels complements Apple’s strategy. Unlike most competitors, Apple appears just now to be seeking a strong presence abroad. The U. S. A. accounts for 48%

you see in web browsers, for instance) in that it does not access a server and download a file that is directly stored on that server. It differs from other peer-to-peer (distributed) protocols, such as the original iteration of Napster or the newer Kazaa, by using a truly distributed means of finding the trackers. Trackers report on “who” has “what” of a particular torrent’s information and may actively maintain torrents’ health. The actual “torrents” are small files that tell the client where to

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems are becoming increasingly popular due to their flexibility and scalability. A peer-to-peer, or “P2P,” file transfer service allows the user to share computer files through the Internet. Examples of P2P services include KaZaA, Grokster, Gnutella, Morpheus, and BearShare. This document is about the peer to peer file sharing technology. It discusses about what peer to peer technology and file sharing is. It also states the pros and cons of the peer to peer file sharing and

click of a mouse. Not only would you then feel helpless, but also your work to make it possible is not recognize where you are not compensated for. Nowadays, many other software and websites have emerged with the same concept as Napster. WinMX, Kazaa, Morpheus, and many others are basically doing the same thing as Napster, but they have not been shut down by the government. But what makes it ironic is that since Napster is no longer a free service, others are still managing themselves as a free

and selling music (Wikipedia). The current music industry which emerged around the middle of the 20th century has been undergoing drastic changes for the past two decades. When the Internet, and peer-to-peer file-sharing services such as Napster, Kazaa and Limewire, began their rise at the turn of the millennium, many predicted that the music industry, among other entertainment sectors, was headed for impending doom and catastrophic losses in sales. To some degree, and for the first few years, these