motion picture association of america

I forgot to post about this website that i found last week and thought was cool - it is mpaa.org

it has a lot of links to other sites about internet piracy/copyright infringement, copyright information, laws, and basically everything that has to do with movie piracy

enjoy

my research

I have been pretty horrible about updates on my blog about my research and how it is going...

here is what i have been doing lately

I mentioned in an early post that I have been looking at journals from the UVU library. I have continued to search throughout some of those databases...i have been searching for articles using keywords like: internet piracy, digital piracy, bittorrent(s), music/movie counterfeiting, downloading music/movies, illegal downloads, and other areas of that nature

I have also been using google scholar to search for articles/journals. I have been searching the same sort of keywords, trying different searched with the advanced search feature.

i really like google scholar because of the variety of different responses i get. however, many times when i click on a link to an article, it will not give me access unless i purchase it or something like that. that is where the uvu library helps out, because it gives you access to many databases i normally would have access to.

after many different searches using different keywords, i have downloaded many pdf's and saved links to articles/journals and google books that have to do with my topic

i have been reading them and searching each one for topics which i feel will help me learn more.

many of the comments i have gotten have helped me in my search for information and given me ideas on what i want to be researching about. so thank you for those

as far as my annotated bibliography goes - i have posted anything yet about any of these articles but i have written down a few notes about them...i am going to start making a post for each article/journal/book i look into - every post's title will be the title of the article and i will write shorty about what is in the article/what i learned/what i could use - also provide a link if i can

atdhe.net back in action!

to all those who were users of ATDHE.Net before and have been saddened by the recent seize of the domain by the government...it is time to be happy again because they are back.

atdhe.me

after the domain was seized by the government, they released it under a .me address. addresses ending in .me mean that the top level domain is in montenegro. since 2008, .me has been made available at all registrars.

a bitTorrent website that i am a member of called demonoid.com, recently changed their domain to an .me, there new address being http://www.demonoid.me

i'm guessing there are different laws/regulations on websites running through the montenegro top level domain??? i am going to research more about this now

internet piracy

So from reading some of your comments, and pondering where my interests are...i decided that writing about internet piracy is my new goal.

In todays world this has become a big issue due to the rise of the internet, its availability, and the use of the personal computer. the generation i grew up in developed napster which changed file sharing over the internet forever. i have used these kind of programs my whole life and been a part of the pirating revolution. i think that it is only right that i would research and write about something i care about and have been dealing with for many years. internet piracy is one of the reasons i have used computers since i was a kid and know so much today. i can say that it has opened me up to a world of knowledge on the computer and lead me to major in an area dealing with computer networking.

i have always felt that software, music, and video should be free to be shared across the internet. i know the law is different, and many of the creators of this media highly disagree because of their greed. however, i do feel very strongly about this subject and am excited to learn more.

i have begun research through the uvu library - looking up journals written about internet piracy, file sharing, and bit torrents. using bit torrents is the most common way of sharing software, music, videos, games today...

i have found a really good journal about bit torrents, describing it as "the most successful open Internet application for content distribution." it goes into great detail about the how bit torrents work, and gives much data concerning statistics of users, uploaders, downloaders, and hosts. it also talks about the most common websites used and different search engines used for downloading/uploading torrents

another great journal i found talks about of sharing music and movies over the internet. it points out how reduced sizes of music/video files due to compression technologies has allowed for piracy to become a rampant problem on the Internet even in the absence of significant bandwidth. it exams how corporations have changed physical digital media in different parts of the world to slow down/prevent piracy...

here is a link to an article talking about the "right" to digital media, it discusses a lot of issues that have been going on in the media about copyrights, laws, and other aspects that go into piracy

From Pirates to Patriots: Fair Use for Digital Media

a perfect example

tonight in class i went to a website that i use a lot to watch live sporting events. the website usually has a list of different television networks and you can watch live tv. when i tried to go on to watch a basketball game, this was displayed:

how lame...but i think it is very interesting, and want to know more about whats happening to these websites