Anybody got some information?

[Jared]

[disclaimer]
Okay first let me start off, my fellow students and I are not condoning the illegal sharing of files.
[disclamer]

Okay with that out of the way we have a group project that we are to work on throughout the semester, this project has to deal with computer information systems, or something to do with the computer/technology industry.

As one of my fellow teammates has already wrote a paper on copyrights and file sharing for another class and we all have a basic knowledge of what has happened and what is likely to happen we have chosen the following topic:

Copyrights And File Sharing

One fellow is going to talk spend his time talking about the different ways files are shared (illegally and legally)

the next guy is going to talk about what the law says about file sharing...

And I get to talk about what is being done to combat file-sharing, which would include the fact that people now have to purchase songs for a nominal fee from napster....;-) Also what the MPAA, and RIAA are doing to protect movies, and music from theft...:-)

If anyone has some thoughts and opinions on this topic I would love to hear them, and perhaps in a few days here I will be posting a few simple polls to gather some information for use in our presentation/paper? :-)

As said above we don't have to have the final presentation/paper done until the end of April, however we have to have abut 10 minutes worth of material to present in a progress type report come Tuesday morning...:-(

Oh well, Off to find some reputable sources!
Oh on a side note, I finally figured out how to use a little program called RefWorks, I can now click on a journal source on ym universities web-site and it automatically cites it and inserts it into a word bibliography in ANY format I tell it to! :-) Saves those endless hours trying to figure out where I got a source from...;-)

[elwellnick24]

i dont know too much about this stuff, but i do know metallica got very heavily involved and took napster to court, hence why you now have to pay for it.

[Jared]

yep, I've been reading stuff like that, and how microsoft is going to be getting into validation type software on it's updates late this year....from what I understand anyways, that way the paying customers aren't getting cheated out of bandwidth and support that others are not paying for I suppose...

PS. if anyone want's to cry go and read any eula liscense agreement, turns out you are "renting/leasing" your software from microsoft....

lol, oh well, whatever it takes to fly my sim! :-)

[Craig.]

if anyone want's to cry go and read any eula liscense agreement, turns out you are "renting/leasing" your software from microsoft....

you only just found this out  :o

[Jared]

Yeah, I mean who ever reads those things? I've never read a full one! :-)  ;D