Media law or media ethics case from 2009/10 involving Copyright

http://isohunt.com/

ISO Hunt is a P2P or Peer to Peer file sharing service that dodges loop holes in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and focuses on decentralization. The service is a evolution from many services before it but its popular predecessor was Napster, another online file sharing service that is centralized.


The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), is a  adds measure to the current copyright laws that are in place to prevent piracy but in the digital field. However DMCA has laws that protect online service providers from having potential violation cases against them thus the possibility of providers harboring pirate's is very high. Napster is a service that can hide under the loopholes of service providers by providing files that are uploaded by users on one server, thus the term centralized. DMCA caught onto Napster because it held all the illegal material on its drives.

isoHunt is a sharing system that isnt centralized with all of its data on one server but on the users computers. Using a client to connect and find files among millions of users, one user can find a files and have a fast download due to other peers assisting with their own uploads. Thus it is hard to pinpoint an owner since there is no central server.

Today this is one of the newer forms of file sharing that makes the task more effortless and at the same time harder to have litigation to have justice for the creators of those files. This is a continuing battle to have copyright laws to be applied to these new sharing trends to stop cybercrime.

Propaganda with TUBE MEN!!!

• Repetition

This type of propaganda deals with a jingle or word that is repeated over and over again, thus getting it stuck in someones head, so they can buy the product. The "Repetition" method has been described previously. Ad nauseam

This argument approach uses tireless repetition of an idea. An idea, especially a simple slogan, that is repeated enough times, may begin to be taken as the truth. This approach works best when media sources are limited and controlled by the propagator.

• Glittering generalities

Glittering generalities are emotionally appealing words applied to a product or idea, but which present no concrete argument or analysis. A famous example is the campaign slogan "Ford has a better idea!"

My Academic Research Project on Internet Software Piracy

Hey everyone! Sorry for the late post but I would like to share with you all a preview of what I will be talking about in class for my project. My topic is tied to "Internet Software Piracy", a growing concern in this digital world where more ways of our lives are being integrated into computers in the form of software. In this been a growing trend and has brought problems to the economy mainly due to the conflict of opinions about the digital network being a free service for information to be shared or to have privacy and ownership that requires authorization or payment. A clip I will probably be using for my project is this 10 minute flash clip of "No Copy", a flash movie about media producers getting as much money as they can from consumers.