It's All Free!. Lev Grossman.
by Grossman, Lev; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 72Business. Publisher: Time, 2003ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Copyright -- Music | Copyright -- Motion pictures | Entertainment industry | Internet motion pictures | Internet music | KaZaA Media Desktop (Computer program) | Motion Picture Association of America | Napster (Computer program) | Peer-to-peer computing | Public opinion | Recording Industry Association of America | Sound recordings -- Pirated editions | Video recordings -- Pirated editionsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "As crimes go, downloading has a distinctly victimless feel to it--can anything this fun be wrong?--but consequences. Click by click, file by file, we are tearing the entertainment industry apart. CD shipments last year [2002] were down 9%, on top of a 6% decline in 2001. A report by Internet services company Divine estimates pirates swap between 400,000 and 600,000 movies online every day. It's information superhighway robbery." (TIME) The author examines the impact that digital piracy has on the entertainment industry.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: It's All Free!, May 5, 2003; pp. 60-67.
"As crimes go, downloading has a distinctly victimless feel to it--can anything this fun be wrong?--but consequences. Click by click, file by file, we are tearing the entertainment industry apart. CD shipments last year [2002] were down 9%, on top of a 6% decline in 2001. A report by Internet services company Divine estimates pirates swap between 400,000 and 600,000 movies online every day. It's information superhighway robbery." (TIME) The author examines the impact that digital piracy has on the entertainment industry.
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