"We can't compete with free. That's an economic paradigm that doesn't work." - James Gianopulos, Co-chairman, Twentieth Century Fox Filmed Entertainment (quoted in Thompson 2003). Digital music piracy, or the unlawful downloading of copyrighted music, has been a controversial topic since 1998 when Shawn Fanning created Napster. Napster, a peer-to-peer (P2P) program, allowed online users to connect with one another and swap copyrighted music, videos, and other files contained in their computers, thus
has been a great development with the internet. Therefore, it is no longer a safe place when it falls into the wrong hands, for anyone can go online and immediately find what they were searching for and claim it as their own. Moreover, the internet is extremely dangerous, and if not used wisely, it can go to the extreme of harming an individual's life. With that in mind, one of the main problems that the internet can produce is pirated, the usage of the internet to illegally copy and/or distribute
technology brought convenience and efficiency to people. However, it also created a serious concern such as digital piracy. Digital piracy, defined by Cronan and Al-Rafee, is “the illegal copying/downloading of copyrighted software and media files” (as cited in Robertson, et al., 2012, p.1), which results in severe losses to the economy. The problems created by illegal downloading and digital piracy are increasing rapidly and causing more losses to be made. Therefore, illegal downloading should be banned
is given freely on the Internet. The evolution of the Internet from inactive web pages to the growth of user-generated pages and the birth of social media is exactly what Jon Lanier has stated being disruptive to public discourse. Public discourse is all around us as we go on with our daily lives, and even more so when it comes to the Internet. In Jaron Lanier’s “You are not a Gadget” he has confronted the problem of there being so much sharing of information on the Internet that it has clouded who
Contents Executive Summary IV CHAPTER 1 1 Introduction 1 Counterfeiting in Asia 1 Counterfeiting in Pakistan 2 Scope of Work 3 Objective 4 CHAPTER 2 5 Literature Review 5 Price 16 Value Consciousness 16 Brand Awareness 17 Social Influence 18 Gap Analysis 19 Theoretical Framework (Figure 1) 20 Hypothesis 21 CHAPTER 3 22 Methodology 22 Chapter 4 23 Findings and Analysis 23 Research Results 23 CHAPTER 5 30 Discussion and Implication 30 Managerial
LSM The impact of intellectual property rights on preserving the competitive advantage. A case study of Apple Inc’s iPhones . Word Count: 14,014 Abstract The world today has rapidly developed into a services industry where knowledge is power. Knowledge provides means of acquiring newer technologies which then businesses can then use to create new products. In this context, IPRs become a valuable asset that firms can use strategically to lessen or prevent competition. IPRs are basically