I thought copyright was when you take things straight from the Internet and use them as your own work. In reality, copyright is a good thing. Copyright infringement is when you take things off the Internet that do not belong to you, and use it as your own. You cannot give a friend a CD that you burned some songs onto from iTunes. I also found it surprising that you cannot show a movie outside for all your neighbors or family to watch with you. There are many other rules to copyright infringement that I found very surprising.
In this article I found, YouTube was being sued $1 billion by Viacom. Viacom is a website that lets people watch television and clips of films on it. Users on YouTube were posting videos found on Viacom for people to watch for free. Viacom tried to sue YouTube for this, but the judge was in favor for YouTube, so they did not get in trouble. If you want to read more about it here is a link: Viacom vs. YouTube .
I do believe it was fair to let YouTube go without being sued because there are so many people that post videos on YouTube, it would be hard to find all the people leaking the videos for free. I think the punishment was going to be way to much money to have to pay Viacom. It is breaking the law because on Viacom, people had to pay to watch the videos, while on YouTube, people were watching it for free.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Technology Autobiography
Technology is very important in our everyday lives. It has always excited me to talk about computers or other technology. Ever since I was in kindergarten I took a computer class. It was always one of those classes that I liked more than the others. I would actually be pretty excited to go to computer class, and I always made good grades in it. I feel that computers are always changing and getting better, just as all other technology. It has been interesting to grow up and see the changes that have been made. At first, the computer was huge. Now, it has changed into a laptop touch screen and can be very thin. Go here to see a picture of how laptops look now: Laptop
Ever since I was little, I had the privilege to have a computer in my house. Now, we have two laptops, a computer, and who can forget about cell phones. Technology has become something that is commonly found in about every house. I use this technology every single day. Almost everyone does as a matter of fact. Video games are also something I enjoy doing. I use my laptop for homework. All this technology makes my life an easier place to live.
Technology has been changing and it will keep changing for the better. Things will become even easier than before. In the future, I see technology even being able to take us back in time, or instead of driving in cars, walk through something and end up where you want to be. Maybe I am going a little too far with the idea, but I like the sound of it. Now that would be awesome.
Ever since I was little, I had the privilege to have a computer in my house. Now, we have two laptops, a computer, and who can forget about cell phones. Technology has become something that is commonly found in about every house. I use this technology every single day. Almost everyone does as a matter of fact. Video games are also something I enjoy doing. I use my laptop for homework. All this technology makes my life an easier place to live.
Technology has been changing and it will keep changing for the better. Things will become even easier than before. In the future, I see technology even being able to take us back in time, or instead of driving in cars, walk through something and end up where you want to be. Maybe I am going a little too far with the idea, but I like the sound of it. Now that would be awesome.
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