a redefined thesis statement:
1. I am researching digital piracy, which is the distribution and downloading of illegal software, music, games, or any other digital resource that can be shared. I plan to discuss the history of how this phenomenon has come about and the positive aspects of digital piracy. (positive aspects are usually not regarded and are frowned upon)
goals for my project:
2. i have a few different goals for my project. the first one is using the sources i have, and finding new ones that have enough facts and ideas that correspond what i want to write about. i have found A LOT of good information, and i know there is much more available due to the topic of my research. it seems easy to find info about the negative views of digital piracy, but i think i want to focus on positive views to write about something different...it could be due to the fact that i am an advocate for the downloading and sharing of digital resources. another goal is the act of writing my paper and getting it started. i love to write, and know that once i write the first couple paragraphs it opens my mind to everything i want to write about. i guess writing my full thesis of my paper would be that goal. i am about there with what i want my thesis to be, i think i need to narrow it down still a little more and find a target i want to focus on.
good sources
i dont have 15 to list right now because i have been focusing on the ones i have and there is a lot to read..but here is 10 very good sources
1. Andreas Fuchs, Man on a Mission. Film Journal International 113 no12 D 2010 p. 48-9. Nielsen Business Publications, New York.
This article is about the Motion Picture Association International (MPA). A lot of it mentions different statistics of illegal movie downloads/sales/replications. The reason why I like this source is it has a bar graph titled “Dollars lost in International markets” which I think is pretty interesting. Then there are 3 pie graphs about the “Pirate Profile” which shows age groups, geography, and gender. He makes the point that as the Internet reaches out to different parts of the world and becomes more accessible that pirating will only sky rocket.
2. Michael Strangelove, The Empire of Mind: Digital piracy and the anti-capitalist movement. University of Toronto Press Inc 2005.
I haven't read all of this yet because it is a book...but i have read a few of the chapters and some of it is very good. It talks about how the times have changed in media, and how the digital age has changed young people that use these products. He goes into detail about a study by ABC, NBC, CBS, Time Warner, and New York Times focusing on new media and personal computers affecting the audiences behavior. Some parts of this really sparked my interest because I am a part of that audience.
3. Julia King, Pirates. Computerworld. 9/14/2009, Vol. 43 Issue 26, p. 19-22
First paragraph states that 2 out of 10 people that work in a corporations use software illegally.
Another interesting part of is in the first six months of this year (2009), the BSA’s manager of Internet Investigations, sent more than 2 million takedown notices to Internet Service Providers. These ISP’s had to pull the plug on sites that allow peer-to-peer networking of sharing illegal software. the whole article is like this and will probably be very useful, however it is not that long, only 4 pages.
4. Ramnath K. Chellappa & Shivendu Shivendu, Economics of Technology Standards: Implications for Offline Movie Piracy in a Global Context. University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
This article focuses on how technology has changed the way digital piracy is becoming more and more rampant. Research is given that identifies conditions under which consumers will engage in global and regional piracy. this paper is alight, the first two pages has some good information but it starts to get into an equation about getting the price of copying movies.
5. Arun Sundararajan, Managing Digital Piracy: Pricing, Protection and Welfare. New York University, New York.
This paper focuses on how rising digital piracy can make a seller’s pricing power increasingly limited by the quality and availability of pirated copies. The second part of the paper focuses on about studies technology-based protection against digital piracy, which is typically achieved by implementing digital rights management (DRM) systems.
6. Chao Zhang, Unraveling the BitTorrent Ecosystem. IEEE. 2009.
This journal is very detailed and filled with great information. It was written by a by a PHD student that specifically studies distributed and software systems and peer-to-peer networking.
It describes the bitTorrent “ecosystem” and gets into great detail about how torrent files are used, processed, and shared...not to mention the most common torrent servers, how much traffic passes through, and the other details of that nature. This journal also has many graphs, tables, and figures that help explain the bitTorrent system.
7. David Alan Grier, Long John Software and the Digital Jolly Roger. IEEE, George Washington University. 2008.
This journal focuses on software piracy straight forward. There is a small story about a man who sells things out of the back of his car as it relates to software piracy...but it goes on to give facts about piracy in general. The journal has facts like this, “A report from the Business Software Alliance notes that across the globe, $2 in illegal software is racked up for every $1 in legitimate sales.” it goes on to talk about how software piracy is a long-term problem and where its expected to go in the future.
8. Atanu Lahiri, Revisiting the Incentive to Tolerate Illegal Distribution of Software Products. hicss, pp.1-9, 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 2011.
This is a pretty awesome journal because it has the point of view that i do - that there are positive trade-offs associated with the illegal distribution of software products. however, he tries to make the point that illegal distribution leads to more users, magnifies positive network effects, and creates a greater demand for the legal version. but he does examine both sides of illegal downloads, instead of most people writing only about the negative aspects.
9. Marc Fetscherin, Sabrina Zaugg, Music Piracy on Peer-to-Peer Networks. pp.431-440, 2004 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service. 2004.
this article talks in depth about downloading music and how its affecting the industry. this is the first article I’ve been looking at the focuses purely on the illegal music distribution compared to the software distribution. it is argued that peer-to-peer networks such as KaZaA, Morpheus, iMesh, or Audiogalaxy are an enormous threat to their business. They furthermore blame these networks for their recent decline in sales figures.
10. Yoichiro Itakura, Makoto Yokozawa, Takeshi Shinohara, Model Analysis of Digital Copyright Piracy on P2P Networks. saint-w, pp.84, 2004 Symposium on Applications and the Internet-Workshops (SAINT 2004 Workshops), 2004.
This one focuses on how the distribution of copyrighted material through the Internet has been infested with piracy in reality. Infringement of copyright law on peer-to-peer networks has been growing and making it nearly impossible to get an accurate estimate of the amount of pirated materials that is being transmitted. the point of the journal is trying to answer these two questions, What is the amount of illegally copied material necessary to dent production incentives? and What is the price society will have to pay to minimize the spread of illegally copied works?
This article is about the Motion Picture Association International (MPA). A lot of it mentions different statistics of illegal movie downloads/sales/replications. The reason why I like this source is it has a bar graph titled “Dollars lost in International markets” which I think is pretty interesting. Then there are 3 pie graphs about the “Pirate Profile” which shows age groups, geography, and gender. He makes the point that as the Internet reaches out to different parts of the world and becomes more accessible that pirating will only sky rocket.
2. Michael Strangelove, The Empire of Mind: Digital piracy and the anti-capitalist movement. University of Toronto Press Inc 2005.
I haven't read all of this yet because it is a book...but i have read a few of the chapters and some of it is very good. It talks about how the times have changed in media, and how the digital age has changed young people that use these products. He goes into detail about a study by ABC, NBC, CBS, Time Warner, and New York Times focusing on new media and personal computers affecting the audiences behavior. Some parts of this really sparked my interest because I am a part of that audience.
3. Julia King, Pirates. Computerworld. 9/14/2009, Vol. 43 Issue 26, p. 19-22
First paragraph states that 2 out of 10 people that work in a corporations use software illegally.
Another interesting part of is in the first six months of this year (2009), the BSA’s manager of Internet Investigations, sent more than 2 million takedown notices to Internet Service Providers. These ISP’s had to pull the plug on sites that allow peer-to-peer networking of sharing illegal software. the whole article is like this and will probably be very useful, however it is not that long, only 4 pages.
4. Ramnath K. Chellappa & Shivendu Shivendu, Economics of Technology Standards: Implications for Offline Movie Piracy in a Global Context. University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
This article focuses on how technology has changed the way digital piracy is becoming more and more rampant. Research is given that identifies conditions under which consumers will engage in global and regional piracy. this paper is alight, the first two pages has some good information but it starts to get into an equation about getting the price of copying movies.
5. Arun Sundararajan, Managing Digital Piracy: Pricing, Protection and Welfare. New York University, New York.
This paper focuses on how rising digital piracy can make a seller’s pricing power increasingly limited by the quality and availability of pirated copies. The second part of the paper focuses on about studies technology-based protection against digital piracy, which is typically achieved by implementing digital rights management (DRM) systems.
6. Chao Zhang, Unraveling the BitTorrent Ecosystem. IEEE. 2009.
This journal is very detailed and filled with great information. It was written by a by a PHD student that specifically studies distributed and software systems and peer-to-peer networking.
It describes the bitTorrent “ecosystem” and gets into great detail about how torrent files are used, processed, and shared...not to mention the most common torrent servers, how much traffic passes through, and the other details of that nature. This journal also has many graphs, tables, and figures that help explain the bitTorrent system.
7. David Alan Grier, Long John Software and the Digital Jolly Roger. IEEE, George Washington University. 2008.
This journal focuses on software piracy straight forward. There is a small story about a man who sells things out of the back of his car as it relates to software piracy...but it goes on to give facts about piracy in general. The journal has facts like this, “A report from the Business Software Alliance notes that across the globe, $2 in illegal software is racked up for every $1 in legitimate sales.” it goes on to talk about how software piracy is a long-term problem and where its expected to go in the future.
8. Atanu Lahiri, Revisiting the Incentive to Tolerate Illegal Distribution of Software Products. hicss, pp.1-9, 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 2011.
This is a pretty awesome journal because it has the point of view that i do - that there are positive trade-offs associated with the illegal distribution of software products. however, he tries to make the point that illegal distribution leads to more users, magnifies positive network effects, and creates a greater demand for the legal version. but he does examine both sides of illegal downloads, instead of most people writing only about the negative aspects.
9. Marc Fetscherin, Sabrina Zaugg, Music Piracy on Peer-to-Peer Networks. pp.431-440, 2004 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service. 2004.
this article talks in depth about downloading music and how its affecting the industry. this is the first article I’ve been looking at the focuses purely on the illegal music distribution compared to the software distribution. it is argued that peer-to-peer networks such as KaZaA, Morpheus, iMesh, or Audiogalaxy are an enormous threat to their business. They furthermore blame these networks for their recent decline in sales figures.
10. Yoichiro Itakura, Makoto Yokozawa, Takeshi Shinohara, Model Analysis of Digital Copyright Piracy on P2P Networks. saint-w, pp.84, 2004 Symposium on Applications and the Internet-Workshops (SAINT 2004 Workshops), 2004.
This one focuses on how the distribution of copyrighted material through the Internet has been infested with piracy in reality. Infringement of copyright law on peer-to-peer networks has been growing and making it nearly impossible to get an accurate estimate of the amount of pirated materials that is being transmitted. the point of the journal is trying to answer these two questions, What is the amount of illegally copied material necessary to dent production incentives? and What is the price society will have to pay to minimize the spread of illegally copied works?
