Online File Sharing

Download or read book Online File Sharing written by Jonas Andersson Schwarz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is apparent that file sharing on the Internet has become an emerging norm of media consumption—especially among young people. This book provides a critical perspective on this phenomenon, exploring issues related to file sharing, downloading, peer-to-peer networks, "piracy," and (not least) policy issues regarding these practices. Andersson Schwartz critically engages with the justificatory discourses of the actual file-sharers, taking Sweden as a geographic focus. By focusing on the example of Sweden—home to both The Pirate Bay and Spotify—he provides a unique insight into a mentality that drives both innovation and deviance and accommodates sharing in both its unadulterated and its compliant, business-friendly forms.

Download or read book Online File Sharing written by Jonas Andersson Schwarz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is apparent that file sharing on the Internet has become an emerging norm of media consumption—especially among young people. This book provides a critical perspective on this phenomenon, exploring issues related to file sharing, downloading, peer-to-peer networks, "piracy," and (not least) policy issues regarding these practices. Andersson Schwartz critically engages with the justificatory discourses of the actual file-sharers, taking Sweden as a geographic focus. By focusing on the example of Sweden—home to both The Pirate Bay and Spotify—he provides a unique insight into a mentality that drives both innovation and deviance and accommodates sharing in both its unadulterated and its compliant, business-friendly forms.

Download or read book Illegal Online File Sharing, Decision-Analysis, and the Pricing of Digital Goods written by Michael I. C. Nwogugu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illegal online file sharing costs companies tens of billions of dollars of lost revenues around the world annually and results in lost productivity, various psychological issues, and significant reduction of incentives to create and innovate. Legislative, technical, and enforcement efforts have failed. This book presents psychological theories about why people illegally share files online; analyzes and characterizes optimal sanctions for illegal online file sharing; introduces new models for pricing of network-access and digital-content to help reduce illegal online file sharing; introduces new content control and P2P systems; and explains why game theory does not work in pricing of network access.

Download or read book Children¿s Access to Pornography Through Internet File-Sharing Programs written by Barry Leonard and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines a growing problem for parents throughout the U.S.: Internet file-sharing programs that provide children easy and free access to thousands of explicit pornographic videos and other pornographic materials. Contents: (I) Introduction; (II) Internet File-Sharing Programs: Access and Use of File-Sharing Programs; Popularity; (III) Prevalence of Pornography on Peer-to-Peer Networks: Popularity and Availability of Pornography; Types of Pornography; (IV) Unintended Exposure to Pornography; (V) Failure of Parental Controls: Default Settings; Customized Settings; Filters within File-Sharing Programs; (VI) Use of File-Sharing Programs by Children; (VII) Conclusion; Appendices. Illustrations.

Download or read book File Sharing written by Jason Porterfield and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of files containing songs, videos, software, documents, and other materials are exchanged online every day through file sharing. While some file sharing is legal, in other cases people copy and trade copyrighted products such as music and movies without paying for them. This title presents the basic facts, history, and legal and ethical dimensions of the file-sharing debate. Readers learn about key copyright issues for sharing online materials, including how to avoid piracy, exchange files legally, and protect their own creative work, knowledge that is critical for 21st-century digital citizens.

Download or read book Sharing written by Philippe Aigrain and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the past fifteen years, file sharing of digital cultural works between individuals has been at the center of a number of debates on the future of culture itself. To some, sharing constitutes piracy, to be fought against and eradicated. Others see it as unavoidable, and table proposals to compensate for its harmful effects. Meanwhile, little progress has been made towards addressing the real challenges facing culture in a digital world. Sharing starts from a radically different viewpoint, namely that the non-market sharing of digital works is both legitimate and useful. It supports this premise with empirical research, demonstrating that non-market sharing leads to more diversity in the attention given to various works. Taking stock of what we have learned about the cultural economy in recent years, Sharing sets out the conditions necessary for valuable cultural functions to remain sustainable in this context."--[P] 4 of cover.

Download or read book Inadvertent File Sharing Over Peer-to-peer Networks written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: