Kahealani's List: ETEC647 D3

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• Shawn Fanning
• nd polished and worked to a fine, wonderful, simple application. That was his idea. And it was big and frightening and full of implications, and it filled him up, this 18-year-old college dr
• on the floor in his uncle's office
• He can't remember specific months, weeks or days.
• he source code for the music
• Love it or hate it, that's what Napster has done: changed the world. It has forced record companies to rethink their business models and record-company lawyers and recording artists to defend their intellectual property
• personify the bloody intersection where commerce, culture and the First Amendment are colliding
• Most likely the blueprint for the future of the entertainment industry will be drawn from this ruling.
• I don't know how to stop it," says Atlantic Records Group co-chairman Val Azzoli, of the problems created by Napster. "It's not just music I'm worried about. It's all intellectual properties. If you can take music, you can take everything else too."

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• dversarial relationship
• digital-content providers and digital-content consumers,
• n the first place, the MediaMax software doesn't protect a copyright at all. It tracks users' activities. Every time someone plays the CD on his or her PC, MediaMax sends a message to the SunnComm server. Sony-BMG can find out who's listening to the CD and how often they listen to it. And this happens behind the scenes -- there are no obvious signs of the activity or disclaimers on the CD. To make matters worse, there's no easy way to uninstall it.
• Sony recalled the millions of discs with this DRM software combination built in and has agreed to issue tools that make the hidden files visible. Sony, along with the rest the major labels, essentially have given up on DRM [source: Holahan].
• iTunes on external monitors hooked up to their laptops were unable to watch anything. HDCP blocks any movies from playing on analog devices in order to stop pirates from recording content onto copying software, but many customers who purchased content found they couldn't display movies on external monitors hooked up to their computers -- forcing them to watch on their Macbook screens

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• Consumers of music are in an uproar about the lawsuits, and many people believe file-sharing is the wave of the future and their full-on right. The RIAA sees things differently and is taking what some consumers feel are drastic measures to limit piracy.
• the artists those labels represent in legal matters that affect the recording industry as a whole, such as piracy.
• performance was not tracked. Performance is currently one of the legal entitlements a son

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• copyright infringement lately

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