Essays on Illegal Downloading

Pt14a

International Management Abstract The film and music industry have both evolved drastically during the past decades. From vinyl records to CD’s to digital mp3 files in the music industry, and from cassette tapes to mp4 files in the film industry. The evolution in both the film and music industry is most likely a result of the practicality demanded by the society. Individuals often seek easier and cheaper alternatives. In both of these relevant industries, the most practical solution is of course to have instant access to demanded content that is merely software and requires no type of disc. ...

Introduction

Some actions such as divorce, same sex marriage and other practices were considered morally wrong in the past (Giletti, 2012). However, in the modern times, they have been legally accepted and most people are now thinking that these practices are not morally wrong. This is now the trend in the ethical issues of downloading digital music and videos. People think that downloading digital music and videos from the internet is morally wrong because it is still illegal. However, there are also people thinking that the illegality of this practice is not enough to settle its morality or ethical judgment. ...

Marketing 469

As a researcher investigating web users who illegally download music files, it is best to adopt the storytelling technique to elicit information and understanding from sources, rather than focus groups and interviews. Storytelling is a technique where the researcher elicits information from participants in an unstructured manner, urging the participants to embellish their individual perspectives as part of a narrative, much like a story. It is best employed when individual parts of a narrative cannot be understood without understanding the whole narrative. In this technique, the storytellers, not just the researchers, serve as interpreters and analysts. The technique forces the researcher to relate ...

Torio S. James

Saint Leo University The Problem The last two decades left the United States of America’s detention centers flooded with juvenile offenders. The rate at which juveniles get themselves in detention facilities for rehabilitation is at its peak demanding attention from the justice system of the country. Statistics show that the young people are perpetrators of violent crimes inclusive of murder, rape, armed robbery and several other crimes more than ever before. Further studies accentuate that the greater percentage of inmates in jails currently throughout the US comprises inmates in the age bracket of 17 and 21 ...

Music industry has significantly been transformed over time. The primary change of these transformations has been technology that has impacted on the entire music making processes from finding artist to music distribution. Arguably, advances in technology have a profound impact on all aspect of popular music today. Notably, there are five aspects to, technological impacts on popular music. There are several strong arguments as to whether advancement of online media distribution which is the issue under discussing in this essay has been pivotal in the music industry. In the course of development of popular music, advanced technologies have given way ...

Illegal Downloads I believe the practice of illegal downloads is another form of stealing. The way I see it, is that you’re taking something produced by someone else without pay or asking permission, which is equivalent to stealing. Many of us do illegal music downloads. It’s a common activity people do because they don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars just to get the latest song. I’ll be honest; I used to do illegal downloads, until one day I read an article of a woman arrested from the illegal downloading. She ended up paying for all the ...

Their intention was to depict the role played by personal morals and emotions in encouraging or discouraging the vice of illegal downloading. According to Wang et al (2011, p.155), the authors hypothesised that a downloader who has previously engaged in illegal downloading may experience anticipated guilt because of their undesirable behaviour, and therefore will be less likely to engage in the same in future, unlike those who have had no illegal downloading experience. However, if the act of illegal downloading results in a positive experience for the downloader, in future this positive experience will override the anticipated guilt and thus will ...

On the 13th day of February 2013, I made a visit to Suffolk Superior court. The court has both criminal and civil jurisdiction. For the purposes of this assignment, I visited the criminal section of the court between 1230 hours and 1250 hours, during which time I heard a trial concerning a case involving the violation of copyright law. The case involved the illegal downloading of music from the internet. The accused, a 25 year old man, had pleaded innocent during the arraignment session. The judge had postponed the day which, coincidentally was the day I visited. On this day, much like all ...

01.0: Short description on music lovers: Being the music lovers', people do have the tendency to collect as much as possible list of music either in their IPOD or even in the Computer to enjoy listening to those songs in their leisure time or even while taking a drive down the lane. But how do they make these collections of songs have we every noticed that? To be on the fairer side we all know that it is not possible to get all the legal CD or DVDs of the music stars without making good amount of investment on ...