Fighting Music PiracyAh Internet, what a phenomenal invention! These days absolutely anything is possible to do and to get through the Internet. For instance, some of the most popular positive activities include the availability to instantly access the museums and libraries all across the wo...

In the recent past, a well-known and widely used internet utility known as Napster was ordered to discontinue all of its activities due to copyright violations. Napster was an internet music-sharing service and was one of the most popular services of its kind. The company existed to allow people acr...

The internet has forever changed the way we get our information. Though the technology has been around for about 40 years it was not perfected until the early to mid 1990's. With the introduction of ISP's such as America Online, Compuserve, general usage of the internet skyrockete...

Jason Nikouyeh Professor WillisEnglish 111, Section 1334 November 1999Technology is Changing the Way We Listen to MusicDownloading MP3s from the Internet should be made legal. An MP3 is a near CD quality digital recording of a musical piece that is compressed so it can be distributed through the In...

At home, computer users receive spam and Emails from loved ones. At the office, workers receive spam and important memos from colleagues. At school, students send jokes and projects from school to home and vise versa. This Electronic mail is a cheap, fast, convenient, and an easy way to communica...

1999 must be a great year to be alive if you are a criminal! Nobody takes responsibility for his or her own actions anymore. Someone commits a heinous crime, and anything but the criminal gets blamed. It was a harsh childhood, abusive parents, violent movies and video games, the availability of guns...

A tremendous economic change is taking place. We are witnessing the emergence of the Digital Economy. Computers, the software that runs on them, and the networks that connect them are the key enabling technologies of the new economy; an economy based on the digitisation of information. Information ...

Ethics and the InternetNo one denies that the Internet is the most useful tool for research, business, and education, yet the Internet is the subject of a topic that is as controversial as the legalities of abortion or homosexual rights: ethics and the Internet. Many racy, illegal, and controversial...

The Constitution of the United States of America contains the basic rights of citizens ofthis country. There is, perhaps, no right more controversial than the First Amendment inthe Constitution, first introduced on December 15, 1791. The First Amendment states,"Congress shall make no law respectin...

The media provide our access to news and information. The citizens of a nation need to stay informed and thus come to trust the media that brings the news and information they desire without fear that it is a lie, an agency of an evil foreign power or in any other way not the closest to the truth po...

Government Internet InterventionThe Internet is a method of communication and a source of information that is becoming more popular among those who are interested in, and have the time to surf the information superhighway. The problem with much information being accessible to this many people is th...