Thank-you Nadir for sharing your presentation. Great comments Louis and Merdan! There is my three cents:)

The industry has shifted dramatically to cloud based delivery platforms for everything from music to software applications. In large part this, combined with other significant advances in technology capabilities (network, application design, mobile, etc) is serving to mitigate some of the very reasons why piracy exists in the first place.

For example, in the music industry it is now so convenient to legally purchase a single song and have it immediately rendered to every device owned with accompanying artwork and other artifacts, that it has created sufficient value for most consumers so as to make piracy inconvenient by comparison. Indeed we can see that in this example, although music piracy still exists, if anything it has become a supporting component of the music ecosystem - people may still illegally download songs, but there is sufficient value for ‘99 cents’ that they will still go to a legitimate music service and download it. In addition, the shift towards small, consumable, incremental pricing - purchasing individual songs for 99 cents, vs being required to purchase an entire album for $14.99 has again reduced the incentives and benefits of downloading the music illegally. It is important also to note the market now shifting significantly to an on-demand ‘radio’ model where curated playlists (Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music) are again of a value that cannot be realised through piracy. Lastly, cloud storage services are rendering the use of ‘blank cds’ obsolete. Many computers are no longer available with CD drives. In short, there is no action that needs to be taken; technology has completely overtaken the existing legislation, policy and approaches undertaken by government and rendered it largely irrelevant.

 Have a great Holidays!

Bozena

I am curious which service allows the purchase of a song and permits its use on any device DRM free. Spotify does offer something similar, but you are only renting the song. Once your membership expires, the song cannot be played on any device.

I am not an expert in this domain:( but I've found this reading interesting:)

Happy reading! 

10 Best (and DRM-free) Online Music Stores

http://www.techhive.com/article/155512/online_music_drm.html

Hi,

Just trying to clear up a question... from the Study Guide the presentation is described as:"The presentation format is very strict, based loosely on the popular Pecha Kucha format, with some modifications." the definition of Pecha Kucha being 20 slides for 20 seconds each.

But in the assignment description it says:  "Presentation: Your presentation should be precisely 5 minutes long, comprising exactly ten slides of approximately 30 seconds’ duration each. It should summarize your findings clearly and concisely."

To me, I'm thinking both instructions are describing a different type of presentation and I tend to lean towards the instruction in the assignment decription since we've haven't strictly followed the study guide up to this point anyway.

What is everyone else in the group is doing?

-Paul

Paul,

I read "loosely based" to mean the format will be as described in the assignment - 5 mins long, 10 slides, 30 secs each.

Makes sense now that I read it that way.

Thanks for the help.