The Digital Economy Act is in force in the United Kingdom, basically it gives the record companies the power to locate who is downloading illegally through ISP and then the internet provider can then slow down or even cut off some ones internet. However there has been some controversy over this as many homes need the internet for work and other important matters, so certain parts of the Act are being reviewed.
Thursday, 7 April 2011
Music Case Study: Limewire Shutdown
Limewire which is a international website was shut down after a long legal battle with the US Music Industry. The Judge's finally made the decision for Limewire to cease and desist as soon as possible, also to attempt to stop applications downloaded through Limewire that also share files.
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Digital Economy Act
The Digital Economy Act 2010 (c. 24) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom regulating digital media. Introduced by Peter Mandelson, it received Royal Assent on 8 April 2010, and came into force on 8 June 2010 (with the exception of certain sections that came into force on 8 April; and certain other sections that will be brought into force by statutory instrument)
Friday, 18 March 2011
Cost of Free
The cost of free is the cost of the actual internet. For example we can surf and use the net for free. This could be example the company that takes on our information can sell it on to the highest bidder or can be seen by anyone at all.
Monday, 7 March 2011
Free Creativity
This is the natural process and progression of the online free market today. Web 2.0 gives us the tools that allow people to be as creative as they possibly can, in the forms of the websites such as YouTube and flickr people can now post their own home made videos online for the world to see and Flickr gives he opportunity for people to post their photos online for anyone to view.
This an idea from the Five Big Ideas of Wikinomics ties in well with another idea and that is the idea of peering. These two ideas fit together as both bring up the question of how people protect their IP (Intellectual Property). Anyone posting videos on YouTube is posting their own IP and this available for anyone to watch and then if they so chose to copy the original persons idea. For example there are many commentators of games on YouTube and they have all watched videos of others and thought to themselves “I want to do that”, and so they start there own YouTube channel and so have in a way copied the very first person to commentate on a game but they don’t copy the entire thing, they will have their own way of communicating to their subscribers and their own game play for the video.
It is so difficult to regulate the online “remix” creativity, as there is no real way to protect people’s own products online. Take music videos as an example, on YouTube there are many music videos from bands and a lot of people want to re create or “remix” the product by making their own video for the song, this is controlled by the record companies blocking the track, as they have not given permission to use the song. We encountered such problems when making our music videos for our Media Studies lesson even though we emailed the owners of the songs for permission to use them but received no reply. The Only way around this was for our Media tutor to actually point out that it was for educational purposes.
Democraticising Info
Web 2.0 allows people to become amateur journalists, letting them post information to the web using websites such as Blogger. This ties into peering as well as free creativity as people can create articles to share with friends or larger groups of people and even the entire Internet. An example of this Internet journalism and democritising of information would be wikileaks and the recent leaking of the secret documents from the US government. This means that the internet allows for a new age of freedom of information, that even government documents to be leaked onto the internet for everyone to see.
Another example of Internet journalism could be wikipedia as it allows anyone to gather research and edit articles effectively letting anyone to contribute to the massive only encyclopedia.
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