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Attention all TAs: Need Help With JRP
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| Galapidate |
Today I am starting my research for my JRP (Junior research paper), and I have decided to do my topic on music piracy. I know that many of you will be saying something like "TA doesn't support file sharing" etc, yet many of you do indeed use programs to get access to mp3s. I would like it if anyone could help me by posting some links to sources that will show:
1. The history of sharing music, from the days of tape recorders to the modern day with computers and file sharing programs.
2. The impact it has on the public.
3. How certain musicians/groups, such as the RIAA, oppose music piracy and their actions they have taken.
4. How it applies to one personally, or how music piracy has a longlasting effect on a person.
I appreciate any help that you guys contribute :) |
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| _Nut_ |
Is TA moving into a time of laziness? All of these HW topics.
wtf
research is just that. RESEARCH
| quote: | re·search ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-sūrch, rsūrch)
n.
Scholarly or scientific investigation or inquiry. See Synonyms at inquiry.
Close, careful study. |
If you chose the topic, you should do your own damn work and find the sources on your own. |
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| Galapidate |
| quote: | Originally posted by _Nut_
Is TA moving into a time of laziness? All of these HW topics.
wtf
research is just that. RESEARCH
If you chose the topic, you should do your own damn work and find the sources on your own. |
I figured that I'd get this answer. I do have my own research, but since the assignment also calls for "unofficial" sources, I was hoping maybe some TAs could shed some light on the issue as well. |
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| _Nut_ |
| quote: | Originally posted by Galapidate
I figured that I'd get this answer. I do have my own research, but since the assignment also calls for "unofficial" sources, I was hoping maybe some TAs could shed some light on the issue as well. |
unofficial meaning subjective sources??
Is this a HS or college paper. If it is a college paper biases are heavily frowned on. Research should be as objective is possible. |
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| Galapidate |
| quote: | Originally posted by _Nut_
unofficial meaning subjective sources??
Is this a HS or college paper. If it is a college paper biases are heavily frowned on. Research should be as objective is possible. |
This is high school. The paper overall needs to be objective, but I am allowed to incorporate my views in it at the end. Basically I can give the pros/cons and those forces for most of the paper, but allow my own views as well.
And unofficial means like nonpublished, possibly biased sources, so yes. |
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| vswede |
dont have much time to help yuo but some history
i guess the BIG explosion wher the vast majority of the publiuc started downloading music was with napster? (thats how long i've been around atleast) so naptster is big
then kazaa and e u should add the differences between kazaa and napster maybe
big groups against music piracy from what i know is metallica it think they are very against it not sure though
gota go keep us updated |
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| djSlain |
I think music piracy started with dual cassette players and blank tapes. U simply put in the album cassette into slot a, put the blank on slot 2, and dub it to make a copy, and give the original back to the person who shared it with u. and so on.
then came napster which started the whole P2P (peer to peer) scene. The program would connect to the napster server, populated by other peers for u to share music with. It was pretty successful until mainstream arists, from what i remember is Metallica, Dr Dre and bunch of others. They contacted Napster and napster responded that they needed proof that users were breaking copyright laws. Metallica went to some agency to monitor napster servers to report every single user that was sharing THEIR music. They went back to napster some time after with about 30,000 users' names and songs stolen and shared from Metallica. Napter closed the accounts of those users, only to continue file sharing of any sort.
AOL sneaked in to create a new sharing service called Gnutella. A short time after, they discontinued it becase of flying lawsuits, but users were able to host their own servers with Gnutella.
MP3.com came along with (i believe) it was called Lockers. People would upload their music to a locker, go to some new PC in anywhere in the world, and listen to their music from mp3.com lockers. Well, people abused this and started using MP3.com's lockers to share music. From here, i'm a bit skeptical but i believe they shut down the locker service, and lots a mess of money, and now mp3.com is on standby.
Well, napster came back in the news, the RIAA bringing P2P software into mainstream 6 oclock news, going to the supreme court, i think? Metallica representive Lars Ulrich claimed it was stealing music. Napster claimed it was sharing music. throughout months, Napster went on and off until it finally had to close down because of the expense of supprorting themselves and their service legally. then it died.
then came audiogalaxy, same thing happened.
Kazaa is just about next, as the RIAA is using the service to log down who is downloading what and sending legal threats if these users continue to share music.
Then they actually sued some students for a server hosting about 10,000 copyrighted songs and were sued for $15,000 per each song violated. They came to an agreement sometime later for a lower fee.
hmmm, what else.
The very first mp3 player Diamond Rio to came out was sued by the RIAA claiming it was a tool to steal music. The courts disagreed and let them sell their product. With the product accepted, many other companies followed in creating mp3 players.
and then the dog died |
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| Boomer187 |
^^I don't think metallica gathered those names. The RIAA did^^
don't forget that it was universities that first started banning napster cause all of the bandwidth was going up 40x. so they started blocking ports, people came out with port spoofers, and all hell broke loose.
but I am sure you can scour news articles to find out the happenings in this audio galaxy we created. |
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